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486958 Arrokoth (provisional designation 2014 MU 69; formerly nicknamed Ultima Thule [a]) 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.
Ultima Thule primarily refers to: 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 official naming, visited on January 1, 2019 by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft
"Ultima Thule" is a short story written by author Vladimir Nabokov and published in New Yorker magazine on April 7, 1973. [54] Ultima Thule is mentioned in The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco in reference to an illuminated manuscript that the narrator/character Adso sees when he explores the library labyrinth alone at the end of the third day ...
The city-size object is made up of a pair of roughly spherical lobes, scientists dubbed the larger lobe "Ultima" and the smaller one "Thule." New Horizons images reveal odd shape of Ultima Thule ...
Yep, Ultima Thule is more of a space pancake than a snowman.All of the images of Ultima Thule that New Horizons sent back over the past few weeks seemed to show the rocks as being spherical. The ...
Foula, or Ultima Thule, as it was known as far back as the Roman times, rises impurely out of the water, and from the Shetland Isles mainland its five peaks, the Noup, Hamnafield, the Sneug, Kame and Soberlie stand out starkly and characteristically.
On August 28, 2015, 486958 Arrokoth (then known as (486958) 2014 MU 69 and nicknamed Ultima Thule) (PT1) was chosen as the flyby target. The necessary course adjustment was performed with four engine firings between October 22 and November 4, 2015. [183] [184] The flyby occurred on January 1, 2019, at 00:33 UTC.
He called the site "Thule" after classical ultima Thule; the Inuit called it Umanaq ("heart-shaped"), and the site is commonly called "Dundas" today. The United States abandoned its territorial claims in the area in 1917 in connection with the purchase of the Virgin Islands. Denmark assumed control of the village in 1937.