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Arrokoth
ORBITS:
Sun
TRANS-NEPTUNIAN OBJECT
Two joined lobes from the Solar System’s beginning.
Discover the distant contact binary visited by New Horizons, then explore its place in the Solar System on the SPACE-di interactive map.
naif:
20486958
Reference material: NASA / Jet Propulsion Laboratory · NASA · 3D render credits
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Arrokoth: exploring our Solar System’s small worlds…
Arrokoth is a trans-Neptunian object in the Solar System, our region of space within the universe. The Sun is the star at the centre of this system. Explore its story and place in our planetary neighbourhood, then find it on the interactive 3D space map.
Arrokoth is a distant Kuiper Belt contact-binary object visited by New Horizons in 2019. Its flattened, reddish lobes preserve clues about how small Solar System bodies assembled.