NASA's New Horizons probe seems to be approaching a surprisingly "dark" world

NASA's New Horizons probe is just days away from its historic flyby of Ultima Thule, a mysterious object on the fringe of the solar system. Since it awoke from hibernation back in June, the craft has been making observations of the object, and that has raised the first puzzle – Ultima seems to be an unexpectedly "dark" world, and while there are a number of possible explanations, none of them have any precedent in the solar system.

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Category: Space

Tags:

• Asteroid
• Astronomy
• Johns Hopkins University
• Kuiper Belt
• New Horizons
• Solar System

from New Atlas (Gizmag) http://bit.ly/2EOQ88s