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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...
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    objects (KBOs) in the decade to follow, which became a mission to 486958 Arrokoth. It is the fifth space probe to achieve the escape velocity needed...
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  • the extended New Horizons mission, having aided in the discovery of 486958 Arrokoth. Kavelaars is a graduate of the Glencoe District High School in Glencoe...
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    first target, 2014 MU69 (nicknamed "Ultima Thule" and later named 486958 Arrokoth), was chosen. Course adjustment took place in late October and early...
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  • launched in January 2006 and flew by the Pluto system in July 2015 and 486958 Arrokoth in January 2019. In 2011, a design study explored a spacecraft survey...
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  • January – The New Horizons space probe flies by Kuiper belt object 486958 Arrokoth (nicknamed Ultima Thule), the outermost close encounter of any Solar...
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    1997 CU29, (55636) 2002 TX300, (55565) 2002 AW197, (55637) 2002 UX25 486958 Arrokoth 136108 Haumea was provisionally listed as a cubewano by the Minor Planet...
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    binaries. An example of a contact binary is the Kuiper belt object 486958 Arrokoth, which was imaged by the New Horizons spacecraft during its flyby in...
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  • Thule, a Latin (and earlier Greek) name for an island north of Britain 486958 Arrokoth, a Kuiper belt object previously nicknamed “Ultima Thule” before its...
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    for the New Horizons probe until 2015, when the alternative target 486958 Arrokoth was selected. 2014 PN70 was discovered by the New Horizons Search Team...
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    the object that is pointed with an arrow. LORRI image of 486958 Arrokoth from July 2017 Arrokoth among the stars of Sagittarius, imaged by New Horizons...
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    watch party for the New Horizons flyby of the Kuiper belt object, 486958 Arrokoth, and performed an updated version of his "New Horizons" celebratory...
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    March 2018, following a naming competition, the Kuiper belt object 486958 Arrokoth, a fly-by target of the NASA probe New Horizons, was nicknamed "Ultima...
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    on a modified Saturn V rocket. Skylab was occupied for 24 weeks. 486958 Arrokoth is the name of the farthest and most primitive object visited by human...
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  • an asteroid Thule, the smaller lobe of the trans-Neptunian object 486958 Arrokoth, nicknamed Ultima Thule at the time of the New Horizons flyby Thule...
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    most primitive planetesimals visited by spacecraft are the contact binary Arrokoth. The word planetesimal is derived from the word infinitesimal and means...
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    2007 and Pluto on July 14, 2015. It flew past the Kuiper belt object 486958 Arrokoth on January 1, 2019, as part of the Kuiper Belt Extended Mission (KEM)...
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    Hubble Space Telescope on 30 July 2014. Until 2015, when the object 486958 Arrokoth was selected, it was a potential flyby target for the New Horizons...
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  • PT1 may refer to: 486958 Arrokoth (New Horizons PT1), a Kuiper belt object and selected target for a flyby of the New Horizons probe Pratt & Whitney PT1...
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    Horizons spacecraft, which visited Pluto in 2015, then Kuiper belt object 486958 Arrokoth in 2019 to return data at a distance of 43.4 AU from the Sun. Launched...
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  • in the future Ultima, the larger lobe of the trans-Neptunian object 486958 Arrokoth, nicknamed Ultima Thule Ultima Foods, a division of Quebec-based dairy...
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    the closest ever for any Trans-Neptunian Object other than Pluto and 486958 Arrokoth. More images were taken on April 7–8, 2016, at a range of 179 million...
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    visited dwarf planet Pluto (in 2015) and the trans-Neptunian object 486958 Arrokoth (in 2019). Legend   Milestone achieved   Milestone not achieved   En...
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    kilometers (nearly 4 million miles) from the giant. Ralph took color images of Arrokoth during the New Horizons flyby on January 1, 2019. Ralph, in conjunction...
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  • Association "The snowman asteroid", shape of the trans-Neptunian object 486958 Arrokoth Snowman (horse), a show jumping champion horse Snowman or eight-ender...
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    Notes Image Ref New Horizons NASA 14 July 2015 flyby success later flew by Kuiper belt object 486958 Arrokoth when it was 43.4 AU from the Sun. 2006-001A...
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    ring. On 3 June 2017, a star was occulted by the Kuiper belt object 486958 Arrokoth, the first such occultation detected. The multi-faceted campaign involved...
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  • 2019, it was reported that the institute was looking for moons around 486958 Arrokoth. The Carl Sagan Center is named in honor of Carl Sagan, former trustee...
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    The New Horizons exploration of the classical Kuiper belt object 486958 Arrokoth revealed reddish color at its surface, suggestive of tholins. Tholins...
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  • Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan Akasa Linea, 486958 Arrokoth, Kuiper Belt, Solar System; the neck of Arrokoth Akasa (band), a British music band Akasa Air...
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