Arrokoth: Naming the Kuiper Belt Object Visited by NASA’s New Horizons
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.
Learn more here: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/far-far-away-in-the-sky-new-horizons-kuiper-belt-flyby-object-officially-named-arrokoth
Nasa g?t?r beni nept?ne nept?ne
Outstanding
So good
This is beyond backward
Guilty white liberals and their superiority complex…. so they appease some natives and now feel all warm about themselves. Wow. So what!
Wasnt it alrady names UltimaThule or something like that
I think that it?s a bit late to change the so called nickname – Ultimate Thule. Why do didn?t they just give it a number in that case. Surely the Native North American name could be used on another object!
Politically correct space rocks.
I really hate you people.