Meet Arrokoth: Snowman-Shaped Ultima Thule Gets Official Name
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NASA's New Horizons team studied the first sets of data collected during the New Horizons spacecraft's New Year's 2019 flyby of Ultima Thule and it shares details on the Kuiper Belt object's past. (Photo Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics LMeet Arrokoth: Snowman-Shaped Ultima Thule Gets Official Name
NASA's New Horizons team studied the first sets of data collected during the New Horizons spacecraft's New Year's 2019 flyby of Ultima Thule and it shares details on the Kuiper Belt object's past. (Photo Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute/Roman Tkachenko) The most distant object ever visited by a spacecraft finally has a name. Kuiper Belt object 2014 MU69 was officially christened Arrokoth, a Native American term meaning “sky” in the Powhatan/Algonquian language. With […] The post Meet Arrokoth: Snowman-Shaped Ultima Thule Gets Official Name appeared first on Geek.com. Read more