Bigphoot2
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There's a snowman at the edge of the solar system
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Nasa's New Horizons: 'Snowman' shape of distant Ultima Thule revealed
By Jonathan AmosBBC Science Correspondent
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Image copyrightNASAImage captionThe snowman rotates at a rate of about 15 hours
The ice world known as Ultima Thule has finally been revealed.
A new picture returned from Nasa's New Horizons spacecraft shows the diminutive, distant world to be two objects joined together to give it a look just like a snowman.
The US probe's images acquired as it approached Ultima hinted at the possibility of a double object, but the first detailed picture from Tuesday's close flyby confirms it.
New Horizons encountered the Ultima 6.5 billion km from Earth.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-46742298