The past two days have been incredibly exciting for NASA and its New Horizons spacecraft. The probe made its much-anticipated flyby of the mysterious Solar System object called Ultima Thule early on January 1st, and NASA declared the mission a success after receiving word that the spacecraft gathered a wealth of science data.
Now, as scientists begin studying the very first tidbits of information gathered by New Horizons we’re learning a whole lot more about the rock. In fact, we just found out that Ultima Thule isn’t one rock, but two.
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NASA’s New Horizons discovers Ultima Thule is not one object, but two originally appeared on BGR.com on Wed, 2 Jan 2019 at 19:06:01 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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