14 February 2020
Arrokoth helps resolve longstanding controversy on Solar System evolution
...of a body that came together slowly, with ‘local’ materials in the solar nebula,” says Grundy. “An object like Arrokoth wouldn’t have formed, or look the way it does, in a more chaotic accretion environment.” It’s teaching us how planetesimals formed...
12 June 2020
New Horizon breaks record with first interstellar parallax experiment
...to as the “third zone” – when it got three times closer to Arrokoth (Powhatan/Algonquian for "sky”) than it did to Pluto on 1 January...images of both Pluto and the remote Kuiper Belt object Arrokoth,” May said. “But the latest New Horizons stereoscopic...
01 January 2020
What has been in 2019 and what is to come in 2020!
... under its South Pole Along with the Moon, Mars, Ryugu, FarFarOut, Ultima Thule (now renamed Arrokoth after a controversy over the old name's Nazi connections) and our second interstellar visitor made the...
