# Why no recent Ultima Thule images?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-no-recent-ultima-thule-images/828155>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [January 21, 2019, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-no-recent-ultima-thule-images/828155 "2019-01-21T15:30:40Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2019, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-no-recent-ultima-thule-images/828155/41 "2019-03-18T22:45:33Z")

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Not a new image, but [some interpretation](https://www.space.com/new-horizons-ultima-thule-flyby-geologic-frankenstein.html).

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**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2019, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-no-recent-ultima-thule-images/828155/42 "2019-03-18T23:20:46Z")

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You still can’t see the hatches.  
dammit.

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**Author:** ![DSYoungEsq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c6cbf5/32.png) [@DSYoungEsq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSYoungEsq)\
**Post date:** [March 20, 2019, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-no-recent-ultima-thule-images/828155/43 "2019-03-20T01:21:45Z")

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> [@carnivorousplant](#):
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> You still can’t see the hatches.  
> dammit.

So, the world is NOT hollow? Or maybe they just can’t touch the sky?

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**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\
**Post date:** [February 13, 2020, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-no-recent-ultima-thule-images/828155/44 "2020-02-13T22:08:57Z")

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[del]Ultama Thule[/del] Arrokoth is [back in the news](https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/13/world/arrokoth-kuiper-belt-object-scn/index.html). (The original name was changed for being “too Nazi.”)

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**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2020, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-no-recent-ultima-thule-images/828155/45 "2020-02-14T05:22:17Z")

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Why the scare quotes? It was probably unintentional (some team members were aware of the association, though), but there’s definitely [Nazi associations](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thule_Society). Sucks, just like with the Swastika, but it exists.

I much prefer this new [Harry Potter shoutout](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubeus_Hagrid#Aragog), anyway 🙂 .

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**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2020, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-no-recent-ultima-thule-images/828155/46 "2020-02-14T13:54:00Z")

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> [@MrDibble](#):
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> Why the scare quotes? It was probably unintentional (some team members were aware of the association, though), but there’s definitely [Nazi associations](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thule_Society).

Because I don’t like the whole “pre-existing name/symbol was used by someone bad and now nobody else can ever use it again” thing.

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