WASHINGTON, Feb 14 — A vaguely hourglass-shaped icy object called Arrokoth residing in the far reaches of the solar system — the most distant body ever explored by a spacecraft — is giving scientists intriguing clues about the formation of the planets including Earth. Scientists yesterday...
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WASHINGTON, Feb 14 — A vaguely hourglass-shaped icy object called Arrokoth residing in the far reaches of the solar system — the most distant body ever explored by a spacecraft — is giving scientists intriguing clues about the formation of the planets including Earth. Arrokoth, located 6.6 billion km from Earth in a region beyond the planet Neptune called the Kuiper Belt, boasts a uniformly reddish surface that is smooth and undulating with few craters. It is coated with frozen methanol — a type of alcohol — and unidentified complex organic molecules.
Arrokoth is comprised of two lobes looking somewhat like giant wheels of cheese fused together by a bridge.
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