<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[RSS Feed]]></title><description><![CDATA[RSS Feed]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com</link><image><url>http://direct.ecency.com/logo512.png</url><title>RSS Feed</title><link>http://direct.ecency.com</link></image><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 03:55:42 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="http://direct.ecency.com/created/ultimathule/rss.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[Finding the building blocks of life a billion miles beyond Pluto, by Michael Summers]]></title><description><![CDATA[Finding the building blocks of life a billion miles beyond #Pluto, by Michael Summers: #UltimaThule #KuiperBelt #NewHorizons]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/pluto/@alexanderrogge/finding-the-building-blocks-of-life-a-billion-miles-beyond-pluto-by-michael-summers</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/pluto/@alexanderrogge/finding-the-building-blocks-of-life-a-billion-miles-beyond-pluto-by-michael-summers</guid><category><![CDATA[pluto]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[alexanderrogge]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 May 2019 06:30:30 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Newslink: A Gentle Kiss: How the Kuiper Belt Object Ultima Thule Was Born]]></title><description><![CDATA[A surprisingly gentle merger between two small primordial bodies formed the distant object Ultima Thule, a new study suggests. These two progenitors themselves likely coalesced from the same cloud of icy]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/newslink/@zathras/newslink-a-gentle-kiss-how-the-kuiper-belt-object-ultima-thule-was-born</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/newslink/@zathras/newslink-a-gentle-kiss-how-the-kuiper-belt-object-ultima-thule-was-born</guid><category><![CDATA[newslink]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[zathras]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2019 07:34:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/46aP2QbqUqBqhvFxe5gsRnxrUXVByJKyZPx4LemqCnM6hh2FRSi4m6ghv9B7Fjcrv4ipRYp8SGubiVz8s4Wif4hDCWzr?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Astronomy Day 2019 at C.M. Crockett Park]]></title><description><![CDATA[The 2019 Northern Virginia Astronomy Club #AstronomyDay at C.M. #Crockett Park featured lectures about the #NASA #ParkerSolarProbe by Phillip Hess, the NASA #NewHorizons contact with #UltimaThule by Michael]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/astronomyday/@alexanderrogge/astronomy-day-2019-at-c-m-crockett-park</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/astronomyday/@alexanderrogge/astronomy-day-2019-at-c-m-crockett-park</guid><category><![CDATA[astronomyday]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[alexanderrogge]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 12 May 2019 05:52:33 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/HNWT6DgoBc14riaEeLCzGYopkqYBKxpGKqfNWfgr368M9VRdYCrzoBJL33sBphSygD5qF5zkMKjTTcb9SwBNWkehsgy9VrBHSNZ4B3PbWSDpbK1ME5toQvMCjaE?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Newslink: Ultima Thule's Mystery Mounds Puzzle Scientists]]></title><description><![CDATA[Ultima Thule is lumpy, and scientists aren't sure why. Just after midnight on Jan. 1, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft zoomed past Ultima Thule, a small, frigid object that lies about 1 billion miles (1.6]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/newslink/@zathras/newslink-ultima-thule-s-mystery-mounds-puzzle-scientists</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/newslink/@zathras/newslink-ultima-thule-s-mystery-mounds-puzzle-scientists</guid><category><![CDATA[newslink]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[zathras]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2019 19:14:33 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/46aP2QbqUqBqhvFxe5gsRnxrUXVByJKyZPx4LemqCnM6hh2FRSi4m6ghv9B7Fjcrv4ipRYp8SGubiVz8s4Wif4hDCWzr?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Newslink: NASA's New Horizons Reveals Geologic 'Frankenstein' That Formed Ultima Thule]]></title><description><![CDATA[THE WOODLANDS, Texas — Less than three months after the New Horizons spacecraft zoomed past a distant, cold space rock, scientists are beginning to piece together the story of how that object, nicknamed]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/newslink/@zathras/newslink-nasa-s-new-horizons-reveals-geologic-frankenstein-that-formed-ultima-thule</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/newslink/@zathras/newslink-nasa-s-new-horizons-reveals-geologic-frankenstein-that-formed-ultima-thule</guid><category><![CDATA[newslink]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[zathras]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 18 Mar 2019 22:20:51 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/46aP2QbqUqBqhvFxe5gsRnxrUXVByJKyZPx4LemqCnM6hh2FRSi4m6ghv9B7Fjcrv4ipRYp8SGubiVz8s4Wif4hDCWzr?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Newslink: Best-Ever View of Distant Object Ultima Thule Reveals Weird Circles, Pits]]></title><description><![CDATA[The best-ever photos of Ultima Thule have made it down to Earth, and they heighten the intrigue about the frigid and faraway 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thought.]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/newslink/@zathras/newslink-ultima-thule-beyond-pluto-is-flat-like-a-pancake-and-not-a-space-snowman-after-all</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/newslink/@zathras/newslink-ultima-thule-beyond-pluto-is-flat-like-a-pancake-and-not-a-space-snowman-after-all</guid><category><![CDATA[newslink]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[zathras]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2019 05:42:54 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/C3TZR1g81UNaPs7vzNXHueW5ZM76DSHWEY7onmfLxcK2iQbUb9a8qprMtakRt2nPjWM5wca9yhGYbX8p51JKaf9u8waVKWhkwtMf1GnYjWCwnY7xunj8b2E?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ultima Thule, Chang'e 4, HYPERVSN, Virgin Galactic and more!]]></title><description><![CDATA[Ultima Thule, Chang’e 4 & Chandrayaan 2 – 1-11-2019 Ultima Thule, the by now famous Kuiper Belt Object, has now been officially discovered and explored becoming the most distant object in 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Sie zeigen - aufgenommen aus rund 50 000 Kilometer Entfernung - zwei teilweise rötlich eingefärbte Klumpen aus Eis - wahrscheinlich]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/deutsch/@indextrader24/ultima-thule-ein-binaerer-komet-aus-eis</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/deutsch/@indextrader24/ultima-thule-ein-binaerer-komet-aus-eis</guid><category><![CDATA[deutsch]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[indextrader24]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 02 Jan 2019 21:05:06 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/7258xSVeJbKkzXhyseBP4PYz11eBDT8sW2oR1a4vfVFS6JLGNaRK2U9L88tsYmAyWcjjVnccGjvzG6BBbKuq3BfaYNTnQY7xRXPCdvZi1SXb6uBhgmQo4eF3Qtc294Lk2fUbdvEWcghWE?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[NASA's New Horizons Now Approaching Ultima Thule.]]></title><description><![CDATA[It was only 4 years ago that this object was discovered, originally named as 2014 MU69 but now nicknamed as Ultima Thule which came from Latin phrase which means "a place beyond the known world".]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/science/@arnel/nasa-s-new-horizons-now-approaching-ultima-thule</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/science/@arnel/nasa-s-new-horizons-now-approaching-ultima-thule</guid><category><![CDATA[science]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[arnel]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 02 Jan 2019 04:37:21 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/qjrE4yyfw5pEPvDbJDzhdNXM7mjt1tbr2kM3X28F6SraZgspDzHjwJYX3DorWWHeiRjvcxDNPPvWzSicJWZfcHNYjPZPqMUmHp7w7gfLMcHuN71CqU49Nx6a?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Newslink:Ultima Thule Looks Like a Bowling Pin in Space in New Horizons Flyby Photo]]></title><description><![CDATA[Ultima Thule, the weird Kuiper Belt object that NASA's New Horizons spacecraft visited in a historic flyby on Jan. 1, 2019, looks like a cosmic bowling pin, scientists say.]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/newslink/@zathras/newslink-ultima-thule-looks-like-a-bowling-pin-in-space-in-new-horizons-flyby-photo</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/newslink/@zathras/newslink-ultima-thule-looks-like-a-bowling-pin-in-space-in-new-horizons-flyby-photo</guid><category><![CDATA[newslink]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[zathras]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 02 Jan 2019 00:12:15 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/C3TZR1g81UNaPs7vzNXHueW5ZM76DSHWEY7onmfLxcK2iQGUoyFbAE4LdFYEtMsc5EY2LAc7fF8LRzvfCfSMUSgxTJtThcA3vn9AKUsjtaaZ8SNpLw3yxkE?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Newslink: New Horizons Spacecraft Makes New Year's Day Flyby of Ultima Thule, the Farthest Rendezvous Ever]]></title><description><![CDATA[What a way to ring in the new year. 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