Pluto and Charon were revealed by the New Horizons probe as two of the most fascinating objects in the outer solar system. And let the “hardcore” planetary scientists – the sky bureaucrats – say what they will…

They will never succeed in making Pluto just one of the many trans-Neptunian objects orbiting in the Kuiper belt.

Especially now, after the flyby by the American probe showed the world that this so-called “dwarf planet” is not just a simple snowball, but a real world, with mountain ranges, plains, and even an atmosphere.

With an incredible bonus… the presence of the largest moon in the solar system relative to the size of its parent planet! And this is exactly what we want to talk about in this video,the uniqueness and beauty of the Pluto-Charon system, the most compact and gravitationally bound in our entire planetary system. And with a secret yet to be revealed…

Did these two objects meet by chance, or was Charon born from a piece of Pluto?