The comics

Ultima Thule is the name bestowed upon an asteroid that is happily living it’s life in the Kuiper belt, 4 BILLION miles from us! When I first saw those images, I was blown away and simply amazed by the sheer magnificence of space and the technological achievement those clever chaps at NASA had mastered. I showed my son with the unkept eagerness and expected the same level of enthusiasm. His first words when seeing it were, “Yeah. It looks like BB8.”