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Ultima Thule is shaped like two lumpy pancakes

Author: Emily Conover / Source: Science News

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THIN CRESCENT This series of images, taken as the New Horizons spacecraft sped away from Ultima Thule, helped scientists determine that its shape is more like two pancakes than a snowman.

Visions of a space snowman have fallen flat.

New images of Ultima Thule released February 8 indicate that the faraway space rock is much thinner than thought. Rather than two round spheres stuck together like a snowman (SN: 2/2/19, p. 7), the object, officially called MU69, is shaped more like a couple of lumpy pancakes that melded together in a frying pan.

NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft flew by the…

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