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A Giant Impact Origin of Pluto-Charon
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Pluto and its moon, Charon, are the most prominent members of the Kuiper belt, and their existence holds clues to outer solar system formation processes. Here, hydrodynamic simulations are used to demonstrate that the formation of Pluto-Charon by means of a large collision is quite plausible. I show that such an impact probably produced an intact Charon, although it is possible that a disk of material orbited Pluto from which Charon later accumulated. These findings suggest that collisions between 1000-kilometer-class objects occurred in the early inner Kuiper belt.
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“Giant impacts occurring at the end stages of planet formation define the properties of the final planets and moons.”
From SPH calculations of Mars-scale collisions: The role of the equation of state, material rheologies, and numerical effects (2018) · cites this paper as Canup, 2005
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“We note that previous SPH simulations at this scale (e.g.Marinova et al., 2008;Canup, 2005;Citron et al., 2015;Canup and Salmon, 2016) did not include material strength.”
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“Our results also suggested that Pluto-Charon type collisions (e.g.Canup, 2005) might well be in a regime where material strength is not negligible.”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Canup, R. M.
- Venue
- Science
- Published
- 2005-01-28
- Volume
- 307
- Issue
- 5709
- Pages
- 546-550
- ISSN
- 0036-8075 (ISSN-L)
- 1095-9203
- OpenAlex
- W2012651603
- Cited by
- 340
- References
- 23
- FWCI
- 10.54
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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