On the Origin of the Remarkable Contact Binary (486958) 2014 MU69 ("Ultima Thule")
Abstract
We discuss the remarkable world 2014 MU69, or "Ultima Thule," as revealed by the recent New Horizons flyby. This body reveals hitherto unimagined details of how the building blocks of planets -planetesimals -were actually assembled.
- Publication:
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EPSC-DPS Joint Meeting 2019
- Pub Date:
- September 2019
- Bibcode:
- 2019EPSC...13.1387M