The Name Game Astronomy

New Horizons’ next target has been dubbed Ultima Thule

The name was chosen from about 34,000 submissions

Ultima Thule

ULTIMATE DESTINATION  NASA has chosen Ultima Thule as the name of the next destination of the New Horizons spacecraft, depicted in this artist’s impression as a binary system.

Steve Gribben/SwRI/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/NASA

By Mike Denison

- More than 2 years ago

And the winner is in. Of the roughly 34,000 submissions sent in by the public, NASA has finally chosen an official nickname for the New Horizons spacecraft’s next destination: Ultima Thule.