{"id":85385,"date":"2019-11-14T16:27:11","date_gmt":"2019-11-14T10:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=11575"},"modified":"2019-11-14T16:27:11","modified_gmt":"2019-11-14T10:57:11","slug":"nasa-renames-ultima-thule-as-arrokoth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/nasa-renames-ultima-thule-as-arrokoth\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA Renames Ultima Thule as &#8216;Arrokoth&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong> NASA has renamed Ultima Thule as \u2018Arrokoth, meaning &#8216;sky&#8217; in the Native American Powhatan language.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Ultima Thule is a <strong>Kuiper Belt object <\/strong>and\nthe <strong>farthest object <\/strong>ever explored by any spacecraft. The object is\nofficially named <strong>2014 MU69<\/strong>.<\/li><li>It is a <strong>contact binary <\/strong>that is single\nobject with two lobes attached gently. NASA dubbed the larger lobe as <strong>Ultima\n<\/strong>and three time\u2019s smaller lobe as <strong>Thule<\/strong>.<\/li><li>In colour, Ultima Thule has a <strong>reddish hue <\/strong>which\nis believed to be caused by modification of the organic materials on its\nsurface.<\/li><li>NASA has found evidence for a unique mixture of\nmethanol, water ice, and organic molecules on Ultima Thule\u2019s surface.<\/li><li>Further, a range of surface features on Ultima\nThule, such as bright spots and patches, hills and troughs, and craters and\npits have been observed. The largest depression is an 8-kilometre-wide feature,\nwhich researchers have named <strong>Maryland crater<\/strong>. It was likely formed from\nan impact.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Additional Information:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Kuiper Belt:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The Kuiper belt occasionally called the <strong>Edgeworth\u2013Kuiper\nbelt<\/strong>, is a circumstellar disc in the outer Solar System, extending from the\norbit of Neptune (at 30 AU) to approximately 50 AU from the Sun.<\/li><li>It consists of icy objects, which are remnants\nfrom the formation of the solar system. <strong>Pluto is also a part of the Kuiper\nBelt.<\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>New Horizons:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The New Horizons spacecraft was launched in 2006\nby NASA. It is the <strong>first mission to explore the Kuiper belt.<\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: NASA has renamed Ultima Thule as \u2018Arrokoth, meaning &#8216;sky&#8217; in the Native American Powhatan language. Facts: Ultima Thule is a Kuiper Belt object and the farthest object ever explored by any spacecraft. The object is officially named 2014 MU69. It is a contact binary that is single object with two lobes attached gently. NASA&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/nasa-renames-ultima-thule-as-arrokoth\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">NASA Renames Ultima Thule as &#8216;Arrokoth&#8217;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1738],"tags":[2724,2445],"class_list":["post-85385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-and-technology-daily-factly-articles","tag-arrokoth","tag-ultima-thule","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704711463},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85385\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}