NewsPlanetary SciencePluto may have captured its moon Charon with a kissThe pair of Kuiper belt objects linked up in a kiss-and-capture collision The New Horizons spacecraft flyby in 2015 captured these images of Pluto (lower right) and its large moon Charon (upper left). While this is a composite, and not to scale, new simulations reveal the pairs close relationship.SwRI/JHUAPL/NASABy Lisa Grossman10 seconds agoPluto and Charons meet-cute may have started with a kiss. New computer simulations of the dwarf planet and its largest moon suggest that the pair got together in a kiss-and-capture collision, where the two bodies briefly joined up before settling into their current positions.Its a U-Haul situation, says planetary scientist Adeene Denton of the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colo., who reports the results January 6 in Nature Geoscience. They kiss and they say, Yeah, this is it. I want to build a system together with you. And then they do.