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Welcome to Scientific American Science Talk posted on January 3rd, 2019.

Happy New Year! I'm Steve Merski.

Ultima Tule, it's the little snowman-shaped Kuiper Belt object that the New Horizons mission flew by on January 1st.

We'll be receiving info about Ultima Tule from the spacecraft for the next 20 months or so,

and there's plenty of coverage about the mission and the object on our site and all over the web.

So for this short edition of Science Talk, I want to focus on the deep time aspect of Ultima Tule and on us.

On New Year's Eve, the Johns Hopkins University

Applied Physics Laboratory hosted a few short talks about the latest stop for the New Horizons

mission. The speakers were all space people, with the exception of Kenneth Lackovara,

who is a paleontologist based at Rowan University in New Jersey.

Lachavara has found the remains of some of the largest known dinosaurs, including Dreadnoughtus,

which weighed in at about 65 tons.

Its femur is as tall as an NBA shooting guard.

So there's no dinosaur fossils to be found on Ultima Tule.

What does Lakovara have to tell us?

Well, he gave a brief talk for the webcast on New Year's Eve

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