486958 Arrokoth

486958 Arrokoth, provisional designation , is a trans-Neptunian object located in the Kuiper belt. It is a contact binary  long, made of two planetesimals  and  across, nicknamed "Ultima" and "Thule". The New Horizons team use this classical pronunciation, the pseudo-Latin pronunciation  , and the hybrid pronunciation  . The surface is made of pale red tholins, formed due to the surface being exposed to UV light.

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Category:Kuiper belt objects