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Small body · Kuiper belt
Arrokoth
A cold-classical Kuiper belt contact binary, 36 km on its longest axis — the most distant body ever visited (New Horizons, 2019). No figure position: elements not importable in this run.
- Mean distance
- 44.6 au
- Orbital period
- 298 y
- Diameter
- 36 km
Values: NASA New Horizons mission pages · JPL small-body database (486958 Arrokoth) — not network-verified in this run.
Listed without a figure position: JPL small-body orbital elements were not importable in this environment, and no position is invented.
Recorded encounters
- 2019 New HorizonsNew Horizons passes Arrokoth — the most distant body ever visited
An encounter sequence is the order the records give, not a flight path. Atlas holds no trajectory for these missions and draws none.
Data: NASA Planetary Fact Sheet · JPL approximate elements · JPL small-body database (1P/Halley).
Schematic · log-compressed · ranked discs · not an ephemeris — full statement →
Schematic view: distances are log-compressed (to true scale Neptune sits 30× Earth’s distance) and discs are ranked by size, not to scale. Positions computed from JPL mean orbital elements for today — an orientation good to a few degrees, not an ephemeris.
Data: NASA Planetary Fact Sheet · JPL approximate elements · JPL small-body database (1P/Halley).