The "Eyes on the Solar System" live visual tracker is super fun to play around with as well. Came across the Arrokoth page while reading about [1] another set of "contact-binary" space rocks.
The idea that its two lobes joined through a slow, gentle collision is really cool. It could hold clues of how planets first began forming billions of years ago. Really interesting object.
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[ 0.69 ms ] story [ 17.4 ms ] thread[1]: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/07/science/torifune-asteroid...