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a frozen snowman-shaped time capsule from before the sun had planets.
means the most distant object ever visited by a spacecraft, a contact binary of two fused icy lobes orbiting far past pluto.
from named from a powhatan/algonquian word for sky, chosen after new horizons flew past it in 2019 and its original nickname ultima thule turned out to have unwanted nazi-era baggage.
shapelooks like a flattened reddish snowman
distanceover 4 billion miles from earth
ageunchanged since the solar system formed
flyby speednew horizons passed it at 32000 mph