APOD: 2019 November 18 - Passing Asteroid Arrokoth

Good morning Maj William W. 'Bill' Price ! You are up early!!! I am still in the rack! It is going to be a wet day here in the Boston area! I am back!

Love the post, but I'll have to adjust to the new name for Ultima Thule!! I found a short NASA video which explains much of the detail surrounding its new name... I believe that your many followers will find this fascinating... https://youtu.be/b9YcPB0qAig

NASA
"In a fitting tribute to the farthest flyby ever conducted by spacecraft, the Kuiper Belt object 2014 MU69 has been officially named Arrokoth, a Native American term meaning “sky” in the Powhatan/Algonquian language.

With consent from Powhatan Tribal elders and representatives, NASA’s New Horizons team – whose spacecraft performed the record-breaking reconnaissance of Arrokoth four billion miles from Earth – proposed the name to the International Astronomical Union and Minor Planets Center, the international authority for naming Kuiper Belt objects. The name was announced at a ceremony at NASA Headquarters in Washington, DC.






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Cool, no pretty colors like always though......Oh well....!
Good Morning Maj William W. 'Bill' Price....

Thank you, my friend Maj William W. 'Bill' Price for posting the NASA Today's Astronomy Video of the Day (AVOD) for Monday, November 18, 2019 entitled "Passing Asteroid Arrokoth."

2019 November 18 - Passing Asteroid Arrokoth
"In today's image, we see a clip of the object known as Arrokoth (formerly known as Ultima Thule). This is an object in the Kuiper Belt beyond Neptune and is believed to be an example of the material that formed the planets in the solar system 4.5 billion years ago."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JuMWeTxB6hg


Thank you, my friends Maj Marty Hogan and Sgt (Join to see) for mentioning me.

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