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Arrakoth (New Horizons)

Against the black background of space are two orange-brown rocks with indents across their surface, looking like a headless snowman with a large base and a smaller mid-body top.

Though not on Webb’s target list, Arrokoth is probably exemplary of a lot of objects in the Kuiper Belt. The farthest object ever visited by a spacecraft, it is composed of two, joined planetesimals. Arrokoth was photographed by the New Horizons spacecraft in December 2018 and January 2019.

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    Data DescriptionProposal: A description of the observations, their scientific justification, and the links to the data available in the science archive.
    Science Team: The astronomers who planned the observations and analyzed the data. "PI" refers to the Principal Investigator.

  • Release Date
    October 28, 2020
  • Science Release
    NASA’s Webb To Examine Objects in the Graveyard of the Solar System
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  • Credit
    Image: NASA, APL, SwRI, Roman Tkachenko

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Aug 28, 2025
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