486958 Arrokoth (provisional designation 2014 MU69; formerly nicknamed Ultima Thule) is a small, icy Kuiper belt object orbiting the Sun beyond Neptune and Pluto. It became the furthest object in the Solar System visited by a spacecraft when the NASA space probe New Horizons flew past it on 1 January 2019.
486958 Arrokoth (provisional designation 2014 MU69; formerly nicknamed Ultima Thule) is a small, icy Kuiper belt object orbiting the Sun beyond Neptune and Pluto. It became the furthest object in the Solar System visited by a spacecraft when the NASA space probe New Horizons flew past it on 1 January 2019.
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