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The story behind Pluto's huge moon bodes well for distant ocean worlds

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New computer simulations show Pluto and its biggest moon, Charon , didn't have a messy breakup.

Instead, they may have stuck together, rotating through space as one unit.

The incident could have created enough heat for Pluto to form an underground ocean.

The findings were published in the journal Nature Geoscience .

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42

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semi-formal

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English

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50

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