Kuiper Belt

A color image of Arrokoth shows it is very red and smooth. The biggest crater, Maryland, can be seen on the small lobe. Credit: ASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute
How to build a Kuiper Belt Object: Arrokoth's two halves formed separately and slowly came together
Phil Plait
Feb 18, 2020
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NASA officially gives Ultima Thule a fitting new Native American name
Jeff Spry
Nov 15, 2019
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Where do the big moons of big Kuiper Belt Objects come from?
Phil Plait
Jul 31, 2019
Artwork depicting a Kuiper Belt Object far beyond Neptune. Credit: ASA/ESA/G. Bacon (STScI)
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Help astronomers name a Trans-Neptunian Object! (225088) 2007 OR10 just doesn't cut it
Phil Plait
Apr 11, 2019
Artwork depicting the Kuiper Belt Object (225088) 2007 OR10, the largest object in the solar system that still has not been named. Credit: Alex Parker via 2007or10.name
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Here it is: The most detailed full image of MU69 from New Horizons we'll ever see.
Phil Plait
Feb 26, 2019
The highest resolution image of the Kuiper Belt Object 2014 MU69, taken by the New Horizons spacecraft minutes before closest encounter in 2019. Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute, National Optical Astronomy
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New Horizons’ last glimpse of Ultima Thule reveals how this already weird object is even weirder
Elizabeth Rayne
Feb 9, 2019
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NASA's newest image of Ultima Thule is even more hi-res
Elizabeth Rayne
Jan 24, 2019
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Meet your very, *very* distant solar system neighbor 2018 VG18
Phil Plait
Dec 18, 2018
Artwork depicting the extremely distant Kuiper Belt Object 2018 VG18. Credit: Roberto Molar Candanosa/Carnegie Institution for Science
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NASA’s epic New Horizons mission headed to most distant object ever visited by a spacecraft
Elizabeth Rayne
Oct 26, 2018
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A newly discovered *extremely* distant icy world points to Planet 9
Phil Plait
Oct 2, 2018
Artwork depicting Planet Nine, a theorized super-Earth orbiting the Sun several tens of billions of kilometers out. Observations of distant icy worlds imply this planet exists.
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Now well beyond Pluto, New Horizons sees its next target
Phil Plait
Aug 29, 2018
The icy object 2014 MU69 may be a binary, or even a contact binary, a double-lobed worldlet.
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What mysteries lurk at Proxima Centauri?
Phil Plait
Feb 22, 2018
Artist concept of a planet known to orbit the nearest star to our own, Proxima Centauri. Credit: ESO / M. Kornmesser
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Help name a rock in the outer solar system!
Phil Plait
Nov 9, 2017
Artwork showing New Horizons flying past MU69... or whatever it will be called by then. Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute
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Is New Horizons’ next target a binary relic of the ancient solar system?
Phil Plait
Aug 9, 2017
Artwork depicting the New Horizons spacecraft flyby of Pluto and Charon.
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The wink of a star reveals a distant target for New Horizons
Phil Plait
Jul 20, 2017
artwork of New Horizons and MU69
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