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DescriptionUltimaThule CA06 color 20190516.png	English: This composite image of the primordial contact binary Kuiper Belt Object 2014 MU69 (official designation: (486958) Arrokoth, nickname: Ultima Thule - the bigger part is Ultima, the smaller one Thule) – featured on the cover of the May 17 issue of the journal Science – was compiled from data obtained by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft as it flew by the object on Jan. 1, 2019. The image combines enhanced color data (close to what the human eye would see) with detailed high-resolution panchromatic pictures.
Date	16 May 2019
Source	Image provided from two sources: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/nasa-s-new-horizons-team-publishes-first-kuiper-belt-flyby-science-results and http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/News-Center/News-Article.php?page=20190516 Direct image: http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/Galleries/Featured-Images/image.php?gallery_id=2&image_id=606
Author	NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute/Roman Tkachenko.
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current	02:48, 20 February 2022	1,860 × 1,302 (990 KB)	Viva Nicolás	Slightly better quality
	05:52, 28 May 2019	1,407 × 985 (1.86 MB)	Nrco0e	Better quality image from [https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap190522.html APOD 190522]
	04:17, 17 May 2019	1,143 × 800 (985 KB)	Nrco0e	Reverted to version as of 22:18, 16 May 2019 (UTC)
	04:16, 17 May 2019	1,143 × 900 (426 KB)	Nrco0e	Slightly decrease height to make viewing better
	04:12, 17 May 2019	1,143 × 925 (407 KB)	Nrco0e	Widen crop and compressed
	22:18, 16 May 2019	1,143 × 800 (985 KB)	Nrco0e	User created page with UploadWizard