New Horizons Reveals Ultima As Primitive Two-Lobed Object

HOUSTON—Ultima Thule, the farthest celestial body ever visited by a human spacecraft, appears like a dark reddish “bilobate,” or a single object comprised of two large and small lobes joined like the building blocks of a snowman. & This is according to the latest data transmitted by NASA’s New...

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