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Pluto May Have Captured Its Biggest Moon After an Ancient Dance and Kiss

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Is Earth's core lopsided? Strange goings-on in our planet's interior

Is Earth's core lopsided? Strange goings-on in our planet's interior

A cut-away of Earth’s interior shows the solid iron inner core (red) slowly growing. Earth's solid-iron inner core is growing faster on one side than the other
More at https://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=302950&WT.mc_id=USNSF_1


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