Asteroid or Potato?.

Is this asteroid Arrokoth or a potato? Perhaps, after all the data was beamed back to Earth from NASA's robotic New Horizons spacecraft , the featured high resolution image of asteroid Arrokoth was constructed. Perhaps, alternatively , the featured image is of a potato . Let's consider some facts. Arrokoth is the most distant asteroid ever visited and a surviving remnant of the early years of our Solar System . A potato is a root vegetable that you can eat. Happy April Fool's Day from the folks at APOD! Although asteroid Arrokoth may look like a potato, in fact very much like the featured potato, Arrokoth (formerly known as Ultima Thule ) is about 200,000 times wider and much harder to eat.

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