According to to a study published in Nature Geoscience, Pluto and Charon's interaction likely occurred in the Kuiper Belt, a region filled with icy bodies at the solar system's edge. As reported by space.com, the research team, led by Adeene Denton, a lunar and planetary researcher at the University of Arizona and NASA postdoctoral fellow, believes that the collision involved material strength rather than fluid dynamics, as these bodies are composed of ice and rock .
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