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kleptoquark) wrote2019-01-06 12:42 pm
kleptoquark) wrote2019-01-06 12:42 pm
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Ultima Thule
After visiting Pluto, NASA's New Horizons mission has stopped by an asteroid (er, "trans-Neptunian object") that happened to be convenient.
They nicknamed it Ultima Thule back when they didn't have any detailed images of it.
Turns out it looks like this:
Per BBC, "The scientists have decided to call the larger lobe 'Ultima', and the smaller lobe 'Thule'."
They nicknamed it Ultima Thule back when they didn't have any detailed images of it.
Turns out it looks like this:
Per BBC, "The scientists have decided to call the larger lobe 'Ultima', and the smaller lobe 'Thule'."