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New Horizons Images Show Ultima Thule May Actually Be More ‘Pancake’-Shaped
The distant (486958) 2014 MU69, nicknamed Ultima Thule, made history on New Year’s Day for becoming the farthest object ever visited by a spacecraft. As it’s situated in the Kuiper Belt about 4.1 billion miles from Earth, there’s much about MU69 that scientists are still learning. Now, new images have raised even more questions about…
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New Horizons Scientists Double Down On ‘Ultima Thule’ Nickname Despite Nazi Associations
The excitement around NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft arriving at its latest target, an oddly shaped object called (486958) 2014 MU69, has dredged up a fact that often goes unstated—the object’s nickname, “Ultima Thule,” carries links to Nazism.
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Days Before Ultima Thule Flyby, New Horizons Has Detected Something Weird About Its Distant Target
NASA’s New Horizons is en route to Ultima Thule, a journey that will see the NASA spacecraft whiz past this mysterious Kuiper Belt object on New Year’s Day. But as the probe nears, mission specialists are already having to deal with a rather strange observation—an anomaly in the way Ultima Thule is reflecting incoming light.
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New Horizons Spacecraft Sees Possible Hydrogen Wall At The End Of The Solar System
As it speeds away from the Sun, the New Horizons mission may be approaching a “wall”.