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Close-up of Arrokoth by New Horizons. You can see that the "snowman" consists of two separate objects connected by a thin neck. An accidental collision of two such objects would shatter them rather than join them; The new study explains how the said connection was made. Photo courtesy of NASA

The birth of the "snowman" at the edge of the solar system

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