LoginPluto May Have Captured Its Biggest Moon Charon After an Ancient Dance and Kiss
Charon is large in size relative to Pluto, and is locked in a tight orbit with the dwarf planet. A new simulation suggests how it ended up there.
A color-enhanced view of Pluto’s moon Charon, captured by the New Horizons spacecraft in 2015.
© NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute
