486958 Arrokoth
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486958-arrokoth-204-11128968
title:
486958 Arrokoth
text:
486958 Arrokoth is a trans-Neptunian object located in the Kuiper belt. Arrokoth became the farthest and most primitive object in the Solar System visited by a spacecraft when the NASA space probe New Horizons conducted a flyby on 1 January 2019. Arrokoth is a contact binary 36 km (22 mi) long, composed of two planetesimals 21 and 15 km across, that are joined along their major axes. With an orbital period of about 298 years and a low orbital inclination and eccentricity, Arrokoth is classified
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wiki
category slug:
encyclopedia
description:
Kuiper belt object
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/486958_Arrokoth
date created:
2014-10-20T15:00:49Z
date modified:
2024-09-10T00:55:43Z
main entity:
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image:
{"content_url":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/99/Ultima_Thule_New_Horizons_CA06_vertical.png","width":1486,"height":1818}
fields total:
13
integrity:
16