A Pluto-Charon Sonata. III. Growth of Charon from a Circum-Pluto Ring of Debris

Kenyon, SJ; Bromley, BC

Kenyon, SJ (reprint author), Smithsonian Astrophys Observ, 60 Garden St, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA.

ASTRONOMICAL JOURNAL, 2019; 158 (4):

Abstract

Current theory considers two options for the formation of the Pluto-Charon binary. In the hit-and-run model, a lower mass projectile barely hits the m......

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