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Astronomer Mike Brown on the Solar System's Outer Reaches
Credit: Frederic J Brown/AFP/Getty Images Mike Brown killed Pluto. He had his ... the next big mysteries in our corner of the universe, including why our solar system is such an oddball, whether ...
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Pluto Mission Will Now Study The Distant Solar Wind, Says NASA
NASA has given a new lease of life to its New Horizons mission, which in 2015 got the first-ever close-ups images of dwarf planet Pluto ... its solar wind at the very edges of our solar system.
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Pluto-Charon formation scenario mimics Earth-Moon system
A researcher has used advanced models that indicate that the formation of Pluto and Charon may parallel that of the Earth-Moon system. Both systems include a moon that is a large fraction of the size ...
Newly discovered 'kiss and capture' mechanism explains the formation of Pluto and its largest moon
Billions of years ago, in the frigid outer reaches of our solar system, two icy worlds collided. Rather than destroying each ...
Astronomers have for decades tried to figure out how Pluto captured its largest moon. Now, there’s a new theory
Pluto likely acquired large moon Charon in a “kiss and capture” collision billions of years ago. It may have created a subsurface ocean on the icy dwarf planet.