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Ultima Thule, an icy celestial body that NASA scientists announced is aptly shaped like a giant snowman and orbits over six billion kilometres from the sun.

 

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Seriously? It is blatantly obvious that those are two spherical objects colliding. Kanti what kind of astrophysists does NASA have?

That planet must have one weird orbit around its sun. What would the effects be on gravity? Any science buffs around?

Yeeees. First the body, then the head.

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