What is Arrokoth?
Arrokoth is one of thousands of ‘icy worlds” in the Kuiper Belt.
Or can say its the outer zone of the solar system that lies beyond Neptune.
It is the farthest object in space that has been explored by a human space-craft.
It was discovered in 2014 using the Hubble Space Telescope.
Arrokoth is a double-lobed object and resembles a snowman.
It is believed it may have ancient ‘gaseous ice’ stored deep within it from when the object first formed billions of years ago.
What is Kuiper Belt
The Kuiper belt is a circumstellar disc in the outer Solar System.
It is extending from the orbit of Neptune at 30 astronomical units to approximately 50 AU from the Sun.
It is similar to the asteroid belt, but is far larger—20 times as wide and 20–200 times as massive.
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