A Pluto-Charon Concerto: An Impact on Charon as the Origin of the Small Satellites

Bromley, BC; Kenyon, SJ

Bromley, BC (corresponding author), Univ Utah, Dept Phys & Astron, 115 S 1400 E,Rm 201, Salt Lake City, UT 84112 USA.

ASTRONOMICAL JOURNAL, 2020; 160 (2):

Abstract

We consider a scenario where the small satellites of Pluto and Charon grew within a disk of debris from an impact between Charon and a trans-Neptunian......

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