Interplanetary kidnap

Alessandro Morbidelli ()
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Alessandro Morbidelli: the Laboratoire Cassiopée, Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur

Nature, 2006, vol. 441, issue 7090, 162-163

Abstract: Triton, Neptune's largest moon, was probably part of a two-body object similar to the Pluto–Charon system. This tandem might have been ripped apart when it strayed too close to the planet that Triton is now orbiting.

Date: 2006
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DOI: 10.1038/441162a

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