Tuesday 10 January 2017

How a moon slows the decay of Pluto's atmosphere


OUTER PLANETS
How a moon slows the decay of Pluto's atmosphere Atlanta GA (SPX) Jan 10, 2017 - Pluto's relationship with its moon Charon is one of the more unusual interactions in the solar system due to Charon's size and proximity. It's more than half of Pluto's diameter and orbits only 12,000 or so miles away. To put that into perspective, picture our moon three times closer to Earth, and as large as Mars. A new study from the Georgia Institute of Technology provides additional in ... more

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