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Arrokoth

Outline The numbers here are measured. The rest of this page is being written.

Sun
The path of Arrokoth round the Sun, seen from above and drawn to scale, with the white dot at its nearest point. The faint rings are the paths of Mercury, Venus, the Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Orbit from NASA/JPL Small-Body Database.
Kind
Asteroid
Distance
44.05 au from the Sun on average
Once round
292.4 years
Path
a slightly stretched circle (eccentricity 0.0356), tilted 2.45°
Size
Size not well measured

The most distant body a spacecraft has visited: New Horizons flew past on 1 January 2019.

The SunOn the atlasIn 3D

Still being written

  1. What it looks like
  2. What it is made of
  3. How it was found
  4. Spacecraft that have visited
  5. Could it hit the Earth?

Sources: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database.