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486958 Arrokoth, provisional designation 2014 MU69, is a trans-Neptunian object located in the Kuiper belt. It is a contact binary 36 km (22 mi) long, made of two planetesimals 21 km (13 mi) and 15 km (9 mi) across, nicknamed "Ultima" and "Thule". The New Horizons team use this classical pronunciation, the pseudo-Latin pronunciation TOO-lay, and the hybrid pronunciation TOO-lee.

Images for kids

  • 2014 MU69 Naming Ceremony (NHQ201911120013)

    Pamunkey tribal elder Reverend Nick Miles commencing the naming ceremony for Arrokoth

  • Arrokoth Shape Model

    Shape model of Arrokoth, colored to show variations in geopotential elevation across its surface

  • NASA-UltimaThule-3D-NewHorizons-20190307

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  • NASA-UltimaThule-Formation-Diagram-20190318
    Illustration depicting the hypothesized formation sequence of Arrokoth.
  • 2014 MU69 Discovery Images Animated

    Discovery images of Arrokoth, cropped from five Wide Field Camera 3 images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope on 26 June 2014.

  • MU69 occultation 2018August4

    Path of Arrokoth's shadow on Earth during its 4 August 2018 occultation of an unnamed star in Sagittarius. This event was successfully observed from locations in Senegal and Colombia.

  • Ultima Thule approach video1

    Arrokoth among the stars of Sagittarius—with and without background star omission (apparent magnitude 20 to 15; late 2018).

  • Ultima Thule Departure movie

    View of Arrokoth by New Horizons after closest approach. The silhouette of Arrokoth's shape can be seen among the background stars.

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