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Six years ago, on Jan 1, 2019, the NASA New Horizons spacecraft flew by the most distant object ever visited by a spacecraft, the contact binary trans-Neptunian object 2014 MU6, nicknamed Arrokoth.
Arrokoth means "sky" in the Powhatan/Algonquin language.
New Horizons also saw evidence for methanol, water ice and organic molecules on the red surface of the 36 km Kuiper Belt object.
pluto.jhuapl.edu/Arrokoth/Arrokoth.php
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/486958_ArrokothAlso see
https://fosstodon.org/@AkaSci/111681146380738902#NewHorizons
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