Ultima Thule
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Close-up picture released of space snowman, the most distant object ever exploredA close-up picture taken by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft right before its closest approach on Jan. 1, and released Thursday, shows lots of little pits on Ultima Thule.ScienceJan 25, 2019
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Icy object found more than a billion kilometres beyond Pluto looks like a snowmanUltima Thule, as it has been dubbed, was found to consist of two fused-together spheres, one of them three times bigger than the other, extending about 33 kilometres in length.WorldJan 3, 2019
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NASA spacecraft flies by distant world past Pluto to ring in 2019“Who knows what we might find? ... Anything’s possible out there in this very unknown region.”ScienceJan 1, 2019
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