Ultima Thule, the farthest cosmic body ever visited by a spacecraft, has been officially renamed Arrokoth, or “sky” in the Native American Powhatan and Algonquian languages, following a significant backlash over the old name’s Nazi connotations.
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Source:
https://phys.org/news/2019-11-nasa-renames-faraway-ice-world.html