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[Singing in Algonquian\hlanguage]

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On\hNov 12, 2019, A celestial object received a name from the Powhatan people.

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The\hobject was first spotted in 2014 by the\hHubble\hSpace Telescope\hin the Kuiper Belt.

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It was designated as 2014 MU69 and\hnicknamed\h“Ultima Thule”.

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On Jan 1, 2019, NASA’s\hNew Horizons spacecraft\hconducted a flyby of 2014 MU69.

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It was the\hfarthest flyby\hof a planetary body\h-a\hbillion miles\hbeyond Pluto.

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Celestial bodies are often named to honor the\hnative people\hwho once lived in the region of the discovery.

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Both the Hubble Space Telescope and the New Horizons mission are operated out of\hMaryland.

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The name Arrokoth means "sky" and honors the\hPowhatan\htribes of the Chesapeake Bay area.

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I was really impressed by the fact that they even thought about naming

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some discovery after native people.

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Arrokoth is thought to be the best preserved sample of the formation era of the solar system.

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giving us\hnew insights\hinto how planets and our solar system formed