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Today in Nature:

@SpaceWhaleRider et al. 2025, "Capture of an ancient Charon around Pluto" - nature.com/articles/s41561-024…

Suggesting that Charon may be (mostly) a captured KBO that had a grazing impact onto Pluto.

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They shared a non-paywalled link too

nature.com/articles/s41561-024…

The simulation must be seen! (the author would like us to play Careless Whisper to it 😀)
static-content.springer.com/es…

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#DwarfPlanetPluto #CharonMoon

#dwarfplanetpluto #charonmoon
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Adeene Denton also shared a summary of their paper that they described as "extremely internet-brained" - bsky.app/profile/adeenedenton.…
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yes, that was actually where I learned first about this research. It was so good that by the time I saw the sim video, it had almost "spoiled" the wow factor 😀
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