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Distant space object receives Powhatan name ‘Arrokoth’ by NASA

To ring in the new year, NASA’s New Horizons probe conducted the farthest ever flyby to distant Kuiper Belt object 2014 MU69, 4 billion miles from Earth. Now, the object has been officially named ...
The Forward

NASA Renamed A Planet-Like Object Because Its Original Name Had Nazi Ties

(JTA) — NASA has renamed the most distant object ever explored by a spacecraft after it was criticized for calling it by a name with Nazi connotations. It will now be called Arrokoth, which means “sky ...
SpaceRef

Distant 2014 MU69 Is Now Called “Arrokoth” (Sky)

This morning it was announce that the formal name of the distant object 2014 MU69 is “Arrokoth” which means ‘sky’ in Powhatan. The NASA New Horizons spacecraft flew past 2014 MU69 earlier this year – ...
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Powhatan County Board of Supervisors experienced public meltdown over questioning of staff

POWHATAN – The Powhatan County Board of Supervisors experienced a public meltdown last week when a public hearing about reinstating language into the county code deteriorated into what some board ...
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Diospyros virginiana

The common name of Diospyros virginiana, persimmon, comes from the Powhatan language and means “a dry fruit.” The persimmon's “dry fruit” quality is most immediately noticed in the unripe, astringent ...