At 12:33 A.M. EST on Jan. 1, 2019 New Horizons made its closest approach to 2014 MU69, now named Arrokoth (though at the time, it had been nicknamed Ultima Thule). It was the most pristine distant world ever explored — albeit remotely — by humans. The craft zipped by the Kuiper Belt object (KBO) atContinue reading “Jan. 1, 2019: New Horizons flies by Arrokoth”
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