Thursday, November 14, 2019

New name for a far-out world


Because of some unfortunate associations, the original name given to the deep-space object that New Horizons visited after Pluto was replaced with a new one.   The new name is "Arrokoth".


Meet Arrokoth: Ultima Thule, the Most Distant Object Ever Explored, Has a New Name


Still looks strange. See it in 3D with red-blue glasses -- I'm sure you have some somewhere -- and this picture:




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