Some remarks on the capture of Triton and the origin of Pluto

Details Some remarks on the capture of Triton and the origin of Pluto Some remarks on the capture of Triton and the origin of Pluto

Dec 1980

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Icarus, Volume 44, Issue 3, p. 810-812.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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Harrington and Van Flandern (1979, Icarus 39, 131-136) suggests that the irregular features of the Neptunian satellite system and Pluto's escape were caused by an encounter with a massive external body. They rule out the alternative mechanism based on the capture of Triton (which seems more plausible because it does not appeal to any unobserved object) on the basis of an incorrect deduction from McCord's (1966, Astron. J. 71, 585-590) analysis on the tidal decay of Triton's orbit. As a matter of fact, many recent results show that satellite captures are possible, and in the case of Triton several arguments support this interpretation.

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