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486958 Arrokoth
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Kuiper belt object
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486958 Arrokoth (provisional designation 2014 MU69; 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 is a contact binary 36...

Instance of
Classical Kuiper belt object
Trans-Neptunian object
Discoverer / Inventor
Marc Buie
References
Wikidata