Astronomy / Space New data from New Horizons' fly-by of Arrokoth could settle the controversy over how our solar system first formed

[Manticore]

Arrokoth — named after a Native American word meaning "sky" in the Powhatan/Algonquian language — is the farthest object in the solar system we've ever visited.

A year ago, NASA's space probe New Horizons zipped past the tiny space rock in the Kuiper Belt, a ring of primitive objects about 50 times as far away as the Earth is from the Sun.

Most distant object ever seen helps us understand origin of our planet

New data from New Horizons' fly-by of Arrokoth — the farthest, most primitive object we've ever visited — could settle the controversy over how our solar system first formed.

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[Patrick_68000]

Looks like Comet 67P / Churyumov-Gerasimenko.

There is a lot of peanut in the space.

 

[metatheurgist]

There is a lot of peanut in the space.

Bad news for people with allergies.

 

[Caramel Clown]

Those are clearly two milk chocolate covered raisins stuck together, can't you guys see?

 

[metatheurgist]

They look more like chocolate dusted macadamias to me.

 

[Vasco Sapien]

They look more like chocolate dusted macadamias to me.

They looked like this to me when i first logged into the Thread.. It was a double take moment before i realised what i was looking at.

 

[Patrick_68000]

Bad news for people with allergies.

And good news for Americans who love butter.