Wal Thornhill: Ultima Thule Update — Another Electrically Scarred World? | Space News

The latest image released by NASA’s New Horizons mission of the Kuiper Belt object nicknamed Ultima Thule reveals several intriguing features. These include what appears to be an improbably huge crater, which likely would have destroyed the object if it was caused by an impacting object. In this episode, Wal Thornhill joins us for a…


Wal Thornhill: Ultima Thule – Another Victory for the Electric Universe | Space News

NASA’s New Horizons team has recently received pictures of the most distant object in our solar system ever imaged by a spacecraft. It’s nicknamed Ultima Thule, a relatively tiny body, just 19-miles long, located more than 4 billion miles from Earth in the so-called Kuiper Belt. As we see, like countless asteroids, some moons, as…