Chaotic Spins of Pluto’s Moons

According to the latest data from the New Horizons spacecraft, Pluto’s moons – Charon, Hydra, Nix, Kerberos, and Styx – show extraordinary behavior that has not been seen in any of the moons in our Solar system before. Namely, they move and rotate in an eccentric way, showing no similarities with any of known bodily behavior in the Solar System.

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