Imagine sending out a $700m spacecraft only for it to send back a 21-mile galactic snowman 13 years later

Ultima Thule, more like ultimate fools!
I’m joking, this is actually pretty cool.

This is Ultima Thule, a 21-mile long rock 4.1 billion miles from Earth, the most distant object ever to be visited up close by humans.

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MarmeeMarch · M

when we land on it then we visited it - other than that it is just a distant rock

AndrewtheAlu · M

@MarmeeMarch i know, I couldn’t think what word to use. News have been using that word so I copied them 😐

MarmeeMarch · M

@AndrewtheAlu I mean what is the distance then minimum distance ? whats up close -- thats the good thing about Astronomy - you can guess 99% of the time and who is going to check ?

AndrewtheAlu · M

@MarmeeMarch the picture is from about 32000km
And their guesses are the best we have

MarmeeMarch · M

@AndrewtheAlu yay I think they are off by a foot or so

kentex35 · 100+, M

@MarmeeMarch like geologists "in ten thousand years this volcano will be a below sea level lake. " who's gonna prove him wrong? Or care.

AndrewtheAlu · M

@kentex35 well they can’t, but it’s not like they’re just popping these theories from nowhere

kentex35 · 100+, M

@AndrewtheAlu I know. They're pulling them out of their. Never mind.