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New Horizons passes Arrokoth — the most distant body ever visited

node

A contact binary in the cold classical Kuiper belt, reached at 43.4 au — the most primitive object yet seen up close. Encounter class: flyby.

A node is not a place. Drawing it on a map would assert something about the world that no stored fact supports.

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No dated observations are stored for this object. Atlas shows what was observed and when — it does not infer a history.

Connections · 2
Assembled narrative · 1

Assembled from 19 blocks · 1 evidence · 24 related

  1. Story
  2. A contact binary in the cold classical Kuiper belt, reached at 43.4 au — the most primitive object yet seen up close. Encounter class: flyby.
  3. Knowledge
  4. Arrokoth
  5. New Horizons
  6. New Horizons passes Arrokoth — the most distant body ever visited
  7. Connections
  8. New Horizons
  9. Arrokoth
  10. Arrokoth
  11. Jupiter
  12. Pluto
  13. New Horizons takes a gravity assist at Jupiter
  14. New Horizons passes Pluto — the first close encounter
  15. New Horizons passes Arrokoth — the most distant body ever visited
  16. New Horizons
  17. New Horizons passes Arrokoth — the most distant body ever visited
  18. Evidence
  19. Launch, Jupiter gravity assist, and the Pluto and Arrokoth flyby dates.
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No public Signals are attached to this object. Signals show what changed and when it was observed — never a direction or a rank.

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