Science yesterday by the Us probe New Horizons voorbijgescheerde ijsdwerg Ultima Thule looks like a bowlingkegel, so has the American ruimtevaartbureau NASA communicated. Ultima Thule is about 6.4 billion kilometres away from us, the probe New Horizons is with the passage on 3,500 kilometres away, the furthest by human hands, built explorerend spacecraft. That has the fly survived.
From images show the object in the Kuipergordel to seem like a bowlingkegel of 32 on 16 kilometers, according to NASA. Others see in the form of a pindanootje or a barbell.
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the two objects around each other to wallow. A revealed mystery is that Ultima Thule is spinning like a propeller with its axis of rotation, grosso modo, to New Horizons of focus. That explains why in earlier pictures, the brightness was found to vary with the rotation. How long that takes is not yet decided. the
New Horizons is yesterday, past an asteroid flown, as intended. That happened at about 6.6 billion kilometers from the earth. Never is an object so far away from close examination. The probe has the rock Ultima Thule of close to in all sorts of ways measured. Then he sent a signal of life to the earth. The hard drive is full of data, that in the coming years, bit by bit to be sent, according to mission control.
The probe remains in the coming days and months of data and photos to Earth to send. Within twenty months all scientific data about the object that more can learn about the origins of our solar system. Today, even more images are expected.
