Kiss n' capture

I promise this is not an Olivia Nuzzi poast. There's enough of that spreading around. The whole Internet needs penicillin.

No: this is about Pluto and Charon (pronounced like the French: consonants Hebrew-defective שרן, vowels Greek Χάρων). The theory is that Pluto/Charon formed like Terra/Luna. Except: slower.

That suggests that we don't have a Theia situation where the impactor was simply obliterated, with the larger body's crust forming the moon. Instead, protoPluto and protoCharon maintained their integrity: they were always (mostly) just Pluto and Charon.

I take it that they model this because both bodies are alike. A hard impact would suggest Pluto got smacked by a comet. Instead, these are two bodies on the same basic orbit, which by Kepler-Newton is a very slow orbit, compared to inyalowda.