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In 2019, the New Horizons probe flew past Arrokoth, a bilobate Kuiper Belt Object 36km long and orbiting at 45 AU.
It is very fluffy (235 kg/m^3) and has such low gravity that dust sliding down some of its slopes can reach escape velocity!

https://t.co/2rHRUByRfl

6 27
2022-07-21

The team has released detailed geophysical maps of Arrokoth, a small body in the Kuiper Belt.
When I was a kid, everything beyond Saturn was mostly a question mark. It's amazing how far we've come. https://t.co/CRrO72MCGR

36 162
2022-07-19

Teamwork! Arrokoth and Numpy are a well oiled machine. Have a great weekend!

0 1
2021-09-17

All of 433 and rotate around their long axis without precession. They are *all* symmetric around not one, but 2 axes.

What causes this?
I can only think of rotationally induced stretch.
https://t.co/xFT9hATUUH

3 6
2021-02-21

the day after. Oof. This is why you don't lean into a nickname in all your mission announcements and media, even after the phrase's unfortunate history is pointed out. Now the theme of much public press isn't the mission or the science - it's manufactured controversy.

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2019-11-14