Ultima — English Dictionary

Proper noun

1. A town in the Rural City of Swan Hill, north western Victoria, Australia

Proper noun

1. The larger lobe of the trans-Neptunian object Ultima Thule, a contact binary object.

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   For the purposes of discussion, MU₆₉’s larger and smaller lobes have been informally designated “Ultima” and “Thule,” respectively, by the New Horizons team. Ultima and Thule have best-fit measured diameters of ~19.5 and ~14.2km, respectively, with errors of only a few percent at this time.

   Ultima and Thule have similar colors with measured albedos ∼0.06, indicating that UT is a typical member of the Cold Classical Kuiper Belt class of objects.

Proper noun

1. Synonym of Baroque (“chess variant”).