Btw, 'Ultima Thule' means 'the furthest North', and was used to describe things 'beyond the borders of the known world', which is probably why they chose the name.We are roughly 0.25 AU, or 25,000,000 miles, from Ultima Thule
06/28/2015 - 14.54 km/s (32,500 mph)
08/14/2015 - 14.50 km/s (32,400 mph)
10/31/2015 - 14.47 km/s (32,400 mph)
01/14/2016 - 14.45 km/s (32,200 mph)
12/24/2016 - 14.43 km/s (32,200 mph)
02/01/2017 - 14.31 km/s (32,000 mph)
06/02/2017 - 14.27 km/s (31,900 mph)
07/06/2017 - 14.26 km/s (31,900 mph)
12/26/2017 - 14.20 km/s (31,765 mph)
08/02/2018 - 14.14 km/s (31,630 mph)
09/01/2018 - 14.13 km/s (31,608 mph)
11/28/2018 - 14.10 km/s (31,540 mph)
33 days away! Ought to start getting more news from the John Hopkins University there in Baltimore, Mayland!
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