Kuiper belt object Arrokoth’s ‘raspberry-like’ mounds are could rewrite our ... which give the lobes a slightly raspberry-like appearance, share roughly the same shape, size, color and ...

A team of astronomers believe they may have discovered a new dwarf planet—just like Pluto—on the edge of our solar system. The object—which orbits out beyond Neptune—has been named "2017 OF201" by the ...

Kuiper Belt Object Arrokoth, the farthest object ever explored by a spacecraft, likely tastes sweet — and soapy.

A new study led by Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) Planetary Scientist and Associate Vice President Dr. Alan Stern posits that the large, approximately 5-kilometer-long mounds that dominate ...

Sweeping past the contact binary Arrokoth at a distance of just 3,500 kilometers (2,198 miles) in 2019, the images that New Horizons returned appeared to an untrained eye to resemble an ...

The object is made of two different size lobes, called Wenu (the large) and Weeyo (the smaller) – it looks a bit like two hamburgers stuck together. On its longest axis, it is 36 kilometers (22 ...

A new study from researchers at the Southwest Research Institute has unearthed a fascinating discovery about Arrokoth, a trans-Neptunian object made famous by the New Horizons probe in 2020.

The Properties and Origin of Kuiper Belt Object Arrokoth's Large Mounds. The Planetary Science Journal , 2023; 4 (9): 176 DOI: 10.3847/PSJ/acf317 Cite This Page : ...

So-called "trans-Neptunian objects" (TNOs) like 2017 OF201 can vary dramatically in size—from as large as 1,477 miles in diameter (i.e. Pluto) down to just 22 miles like the peanut-shaped Arrokoth.

Observations of the Kuiper Belt object Arrokoth suggest it formed from an assembly of ... then planetesimal formation models will need to explain the preferred size for these building ...

A new study from researchers at the Southwest Research Institute has unearthed a fascinating discovery about Arrokoth, a trans-Neptunian object made famous by the New Horizons probe on New Year’s Day ...

Observations of the Kuiper Belt object Arrokoth suggest it formed from an assembly of ... then planetesimal formation models will need to explain the preferred size for these building ...