A smashing pair

Jay Melosh ()
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Jay Melosh: Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, University of Arizona

Nature, 2005, vol. 434, issue 7030, 153-154

Abstract: The likely origin of Pluto and its satellite Charon, like the Earth and Moon, is an impact between two planet-sized bodies. Refined simulations show that there may be two distinct modes for the birth of such twins.

Date: 2005
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