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We report a striking new type of contextual effect on the perception of such collision events. Consider an object (A) that moves toward a stationary object (B) until they are adjacent, at which point A stops and B starts moving along the same path. Such \u201claunches\u201d are perceived in terms beyond these kinematics: As noted in Michotte's classic studies, observers perceive A as being the cause of B's motion. When A and B fully overlap before B's motion, however, observers often see this test event as a completely noncausal \u201cpass\u201d: One object remains stationary while another passes over it. When a distinct launch event occurs nearby, however, the test event is \u201ccaptured\u201d: It too is now irresistibly seen as causal. For this causal capture to occur, the context event need be present for only 50 ms surrounding the \u201cimpact,\u201d but capture is destroyed by only 200 ms of temporal asynchrony between the two events. 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