486958 Arrokoth (provisional designation 2014 MU69; formerly nicknamed Ultima Thule) is a trans-Neptunian object located in the Kuiper belt. Arrokoth...

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...

first target, 2014 MU69 (nicknamed "Ultima Thule" and later named 486958 Arrokoth), was chosen. Course adjustment took place in late October and early...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

The New Horizons exploration of the classical Kuiper belt object 486958 Arrokoth revealed reddish color at its surface, suggestive of tholins. Tholins...

watch party for the New Horizons flyby of the Kuiper belt object, 486958 Arrokoth, and performed an updated version of his "New Horizons" celebratory...

most primitive planetesimals visited by spacecraft are the contact binary Arrokoth. The word planetesimal is derived from the word infinitesimal and means...

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...

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...

January – The New Horizons space probe flies by Kuiper belt object 486958 Arrokoth (nicknamed Ultima Thule), the outermost close encounter of any Solar...

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...

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...

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)...

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...

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...

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...

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...

SOFIA observed a star occultation of the distant Kuiper belt object 486958 Arrokoth while ground based observatories failed this observation, preparing...

distance of about 33 AU from the Sun. New Horizons next encountered 486958 Arrokoth on January 1, 2019, at about 43.4 AU from the Sun. The Heliosphere's...

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...

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. A TWT...

2019, it was reported that the institute was looking for moons around 486958 Arrokoth. Funding for SETI Institute programs comes from a variety of sources...

486958 Arrokoth, a Kuiper belt object which is thought to represent the original planetesimals from which the planets grew...

spacecraft was then targeted toward one Kuiper Belt object called 486958 Arrokoth for a January 1, 2019 flyby. Another mission that was considered with...