A new study from researchers at the Southwest Research Institute has unearthed a fascinating discovery about Arrokoth, a trans-Neptunian object made famous by the New Horizons probe on New Year’s Day ...
On New Year’s Day in 2019, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft radioed to Earth images of the farthest object ever explored: a snowman-shaped primordial object named Arrokoth, one of many frigid residents ...
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On January 1, 2019 NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft provided humanity its first up-close look at an object from the solar system’s beginnings: the primordial Kuiper Belt object Arrokoth. But, it turns ...
The map of a distant, lobe-shaped object called Arrokoth (2014 MU69) now has official names to accompany the images from NASA's New Horizons spacecraft. After the spacecraft zoomed by the lobe-shaped ...
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The Kuiper Belt object named "486958 Arrokoth," or simply "Arrokoth," may have more in common with a snowman than just its shape. New research suggests there's ancient ice locked within its frosty ...
Primitive ices and gas from the earliest days of the solar system can remain trapped inside deep-space objects like comets and Kuiper Belt Objects (KBOs) for billions of years. That’s the conclusion ...
A DISTANT space rock shaped like a snowman that formed 4.6billion years ago may have sparked life on Earth. The peanut-like object Arrokoth is the most distant object we’ve ever explored, at ...
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A composite image based on data from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft shows the icy Kuiper Belt object formerly known as 2014 MU69 or Ultima Thule, and now called Arrokoth. (NASA / SwRI / JHUAPL Photo) ...
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