Click Here to Read: Pluto May Have Captured Its Biggest Moon After an Ancient Dance and Kiss: Charon is large in size relative to Pluto, and is locked in a tight orbit with the dwarf planet. A new simulation suggests how it ended up thre by By Jonathan O’Callaghan in the New York Times on January. 8, 2025.

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