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a frozen snowman-shaped time capsule from the solar system's first billion years.
means a small icy object in the kuiper belt, the most distant and primitive body ever visited by a spacecraft.
from discovered in 2014 by the hubble telescope as a flyby target for new horizons, first nicknamed ultima thule before being renamed arrokoth, meaning sky in the powhatan language, in 2019.
flyby datenew horizons passed it on new year's day 2019
shapetwo lobes fused together like a snowman
distanceover 4 billion miles from the sun
ageformed unchanged since the solar system's birth