Date: Tuesday 9-Apr-2019
Time: 11:00-12:00
Location: CSS 1250
Speaker: Kirby Runyon (JHU-APL)
Title: Ultima Thule: The (Continuing) Initial Results
The earliest hours of New Year’s Day, 2019, featured the most-distant robotic planetary reconnaissance ever. The varied terrain and composition on Kuiper Belt Object 2014 MU69 “Ultima Thule”) points to a formation scenario consistent with gravitational collapse of a pebble cloud and the slow merger of two bodies.
For further information contact PALS coordinator Dr. Matthew Knight at knight@astro.umd.edu or (301)-405-2629.
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