Simulations of Pluto’s and Charon’s first encounter show that each body remained mostly intact after a brief but intense impact. Pluto’s core is shown in blue, Charon’s core is purple. Pluto’s solid ice is shown in yellow, and Charon’s ice is green. The encounter shown here lasts about 60 hours.
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