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New Horizons at Arrokoth
Space art featuring New Horizons at Arrokoth
New Horizons at Arrokoth
Artwork of the binary Kuiper-belt object Arrokoth (formerly MU69 or Ultima Thule). This astronomical body is the most distant object visited by human spacecraft, with the flyby of NASA's New Horizons spacecraft taking place on 1 January 2019. It is a Kuiper Belt Object (KBO) and was found to be a contact binary with the two joined bodies 19 and 14 kilometres across respectively. The New Horizons spacecraft is seen on the left.
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Title: New Horizons at Arrokoth

Category: Hardware, Latest, Solar System

Medium: Photoshop, 3DS Max

Date: 2019

Client: Personal

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Arrokoth Kuiper belt New Horizons Sun binary spacecraft
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