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Bookmark or Share- New Horizons Team Uncovers a Critical Piece of the Planetary ... - NASAThe New Horizons spacecraft flew past the ancient Kuiper Belt object Arrokoth (2014 MU69) on Jan. 1, 2019, providing humankind’s first close-up look at one of the icy remnants of solar system formation in the vast region beyond the orbit of Neptune.
- NASA’s New Horizons Mission Reveals Entirely New Kind of WorldScientists from NASA's New Horizons mission released the first detailed images of the most distant object ever explored — the Kuiper Belt object nicknamed Ultima Thule (and later officially named Arrokoth).
- 486958 Arrokoth - Wikipedia486958 Arrokoth (provisional designation 2014 MU 69; formerly nicknamed Ultima Thule) is a trans-Neptunian object located in the Kuiper belt. Arrokoth became the farthest and most primitive object in the Solar System visited by a spacecraft when the NASA space probe New Horizons conducted a flyby on 1 January 2019.
- Arrokoth (2014 MU69) - NASA ScienceArrokoth was discovered June 26, 2014, by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft team using the Hubble Space Telescope. Arrokoth is the most distant object explored by a spacecraft. Arrokoth is even redder than Pluto. It is, in fact, the reddest outer solar system object visited by a spacecraft thus far.
- Arrokoth: Facts - NASA ScienceThe small Kuiper Belt object officially known as Arrokoth — or by its scientific designation (486958) 2014 MU69 — is the most distant and the most primitive object ever explored by a spacecraft. It’s double-lobed, meaning it has two rounded pieces in contact with each other, and looks like a partially flattened snowman.
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