The farthest flyby ever conducted by spacecraft: Arrokoth (the Kuiper Belt object 2014 MU69) - NASA's New Horizons 2019

Full size video and more info: https://flic.kr/p/2oum62N

Mission: NASA New Horizons
Instrument: Lorri
Start time: 2019-01-01T05:26:50.103
Stop Time: 2019-01-01T05:26:58.128

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#Space #Spacetodon #Astrodon #Solarocks #Astronomy #Arrokoth #KuiperBelt
Credit:
NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI/AndreaLuck

The farthest flyby ever conducted by spacecraft: Arrokoth (the Kuiper Belt object 2014 MU69) - NASA's New Horizons 2019

Full size video and more info: https://flic.kr/p/2oum62N

Mission: NASA New Horizons
Instrument: Lorri
Start time: 2019-01-01T05:26:50.103
Stop Time: 2019-01-01T05:26:58.128

Product IDs:
lor_0408626328_0x636_eng
>>>>9 Images >>>>
lor_0408626336_0x636_eng

#Space #Spacetodon #Astrodon #Solarocks #Astronomy #Arrokoth #KuiperBelt
Credit:
NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI/AndreaLuck

Regarding the #NewHorizons mission in the #KuiperBelt some more #LPSC2023-related links:

https://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2023/pdf/1263.pdf On the Properties and Origin of Kuiper Belt Object #Arrokoth’s Large Mounds

https://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2023/pdf/1286.pdf Is #TruePolarWander Recorded in #Pluto’s Ancient Geology?

https://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2023/pdf/1787.pdf How Widespread are the Bladed Terrains on Pluto?

https://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2023/pdf/1549.pdf Exploring #IceGiants at High Phase with New Horizons

http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/News-Center/News-Article.php?page=20230314
https://cosmiclog.com/2023/03/14/pluto-team-updates-science-from-the-solar-systems-edge/
https://www.centauri-dreams.org/2023/03/15/the-latest-from-new-horizons/

Regarding the #NewHorizons mission in the Kuiper Belt some more #LPSC2023-related links:

https://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2023/pdf/1263.pdf On the Properties and Origin of Kuiper Belt Object #Arrokoth’s Large Mounds

https://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2023/pdf/1286.pdf Is True Polar Wander Recorded in #Pluto’s Ancient Geology?

https://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2023/pdf/1787.pdf How Widespread are the Bladed Terrains on Pluto?

https://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2023/pdf/1549.pdf Exploring #IceGiants at High Phase with New Horizons

http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/News-Center/News-Article.php?page=20230314

https://cosmiclog.com/2023/03/14/pluto-team-updates-science-from-the-solar-systems-edge/

https://www.centauri-dreams.org/2023/03/15/the-latest-from-new-horizons/

Sir Alexander Dane: You're just going to have to figure out what it wants. What is its motivation?

Jason Nesmith: It's a rock monster. It doesn't have motivation.

Sir Alexander Dane: See, that's your problem, Jason. You were never serious about the craft.

#Gorignak #GalaxyQuest #UltimaThule #Arrokoth #NewHorizons #Yarnek #StarTrek #BigRockAlien #Futurama #Science #ScienceFiction

This is a Kuiper Belt object contact binary approximately 36 km long; it orbits the Sun from 42-46 AU and takes 298 Earth years to complete one orbit #kuiperbeltobject #contactbinary #kuiper #486958 #Arrokoth

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#Arrokoth will be the name of my #LOTR themed #Arrowsmith tribute band.

[#BotActu] « Arrokoth, l’objet le plus éloigné jamais visité, livre des secrets sur la formation des planètes » https://www.futura-sciences.com/sciences/actualites/formation-planetes-arrokoth-objet-plus-eloigne-jamais-visite-livre-secrets-formation-planetes-79618/#xtor%3DRSS-8 #effondrementgravitationnel #formationdusystèmesolaire #accrétionhiérarchique #formationdesplanètes #newhorizons #astéroïdes #arrokoth

The #NewHorizons team has published their full analysis of #Arrokoth

"Arrokoth is a fossil. It has not changed for billions of years. It has been immaculately preserved, like an insect trapped in amber, in a cold, dim, stupendously serene realm of the solar system where nothing much happens, ever."

"'This is the best archaeological dig we’ve ever found into the history of the solar system,' enthused Alan Stern, the scientific leader of the New Horizons team."
#space

https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/new-horizons-images-of-arrokoth-show-building-blocks-for-planets/2020/02/13/3ba09220-4dba-11ea-b721-9f4cdc90bc1c_story.html

Passing #Asteroid #Arrokoth
Astronomy Picture of the Day

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap191118.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IQBSZsqjkU

#APOD

Unknown no longer! In a fitting tribute to the farthest flyby ever conducted by spacecraft, Kuiper Belt object #MU69 has officially been named #Arrokoth, a Native American term meaning “sky” in the Powhatan/Algonquian language. https://go.nasa.gov/33HnAqN 

@JHUAPL @SwRIhttps://twitter.com/NASA/status/1194374328030236672 … https://twitter.com/NASANewHorizons/status/1194380386966495232