Arrokoth
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Arrokoth
Arrokoth; a classical cubewano-class EKO-type TNO that was visited by the NASA space probe New Horizons 1
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W.M. Grundy at Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, AZ el al., "Color, composition, and thermal environment of Kuiper Belt object (486958) Arrokoth," science.
Today New Horizons is more than 315 million miles beyond Arrokoth and zooming outward through the Kuiper Belt, the icy ring of material on the solar system’s edge.
Studying Arrokoth can shed light on how the building blocks of planets, called planetesimals, formed in our solar system.
We have known that since the flyby, but now that higher-resolution images have been received, we can see that the surface of Arrokoth is quite smooth and has very few craters.