New Horizons shows Ultima Thule looks like a snowman, or maybe BB-8
The Kuiper Belt object is probably two rocks stuck together
![2014 MU69](https://i0.wp.com/www.sciencenews.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/010219_LG_ultima-thule_feat.jpg?fit=860%2C460&ssl=1)
A JOLLY HAPPY SOUL New Horizons snapped this picture of 2014 MU69 (nicknamed Ultima Thule) from a distance of about 28,000 kilometers, about half an hour before the spacecraft’s closest approach to the space rock. Clearer pictures should arrive in the next few days.
SWRI/JHU-APL/NASA