In the Solar System · tracked live
Arrokoth
The most distant object any spacecraft has visited: New Horizons passed it on New Year's Day 2019, four years after Pluto and 6.6 billion km from here. It is here for that. Two round lobes resting against each other, 36 km end to end, flattened and undisturbed - it was assembled gently out of a local cloud of material rather than battered together, and being too cold and too far out for anything to have happened to it since makes it the best-preserved thing anybody has seen from the era the planets formed in.
- Radius
- 9 km
- Around the equator
- 57 km
- From the Sun
- 6,440,042,510 km (-10,678 km/d)
- From the Earth
- 6,424,842,747 km (+2,553,831 km/d)
- A signal takes
- 5 h 57 m
Distances and speed are computed from JPL Horizons trajectories and are true of the date below, changing at the rate beside each.
Everything the map shows is worked out in your browser from published orbital data - nothing on it is a stored picture of where things were.