486958 Arrokoth (provisional designation 2014 MU69; formerly nicknamed Ultima Thule) is a trans-Neptunian object located in the Kuiper belt. Arrokoth...

objects (KBOs) in the decade to follow, which became a mission to 486958 Arrokoth. It is the fifth space probe to achieve the escape velocity needed...

first target, 2014 MU69 (nicknamed "Ultima Thule" and later named 486958 Arrokoth), was chosen. Course adjustment took place in late October and early...

launched in January 2006 and flew by the Pluto system in July 2015 and 486958 Arrokoth in January 2019. In 2011, a design study explored a spacecraft survey...

the extended New Horizons mission, having aided in the discovery of 486958 Arrokoth. Kavelaars is a graduate of the Glencoe District High School in Glencoe...

for the New Horizons probe until 2015, when the alternative target 486958 Arrokoth was selected. 2014 PN70 was discovered by the New Horizons Search Team...

the object that is pointed with an arrow. LORRI image of 486958 Arrokoth from July 2017 Arrokoth among the stars of Sagittarius, imaged by New Horizons...

1997 CU29, (55636) 2002 TX300, (55565) 2002 AW197, (55637) 2002 UX25 486958 Arrokoth 136108 Haumea was provisionally listed as a cubewano by the Minor Planet...

Thule, a Latin (and earlier Greek) name for an island north of Britain 486958 Arrokoth, a Kuiper belt object previously nicknamed “Ultima Thule” before its...

binaries. An example of a contact binary is the Kuiper belt object 486958 Arrokoth, which was imaged by the New Horizons spacecraft during its flyby in...