¿ Astronomy Picture of the Day [1]Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2020 April 1 [2]See Explanation. Clicking on the picture will download the highest resolution version available. Asteroid or Potato? Image Credit: [3]Jack Sutton Explanation: Is this [4]asteroid Arrokoth or a potato? Perhaps, after all the data was beamed back to Earth from NASA's [5]robotic New Horizons spacecraft, the featured high resolution image of [6]asteroid Arrokoth was constructed. Perhaps, [7]alternatively, the featured image is of a [8]potato. Let's [9]consider some facts. [10]Arrokoth is the most distant [11]asteroid ever visited and a surviving remnant of the early years of [12]our Solar System. A potato is a [13]root vegetable that you can eat. Happy [14]April Fool's Day from the folks at APOD! Although [15]asteroid Arrokoth may look like a potato, in fact very much like the featured potato, Arrokoth (formerly known as [16]Ultima Thule) is about 200,000 times wider and much harder to eat. Activities: [17]NASA Science at Home Tomorrow's picture: tubers in space __________________________________________________________________ [18]< | [19]Archive | [20]Submissions | [21]Index | [22]Search | [23]Calendar | [24]RSS | [25]Education | [26]About APOD | [27]Discuss | [28]> __________________________________________________________________ Authors & editors: [29]Robert Nemiroff ([30]MTU) & [31]Jerry Bonnell ([32]UMCP) NASA Official: Phillip Newman [33]Specific rights apply. [34]NASA Web Privacy Policy and Important Notices A service of: [35]ASD at [36]NASA / [37]GSFC & [38]Michigan Tech. U. References 1. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html 2. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/2004/PotatoPod_Sutton_5332.jpg 3. mailto:%20jacksutton.orion%20@at@%20gmail%20dot%20com 4. https://www.sciencenews.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/111319_cc_ultima-thule_feat-1028x579.jpg 5. https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/newhorizons/spacecraft/index.html 6. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap191118.html 7. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap130401.html 8. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhyKrbs7Veg 9. https://image.shutterstock.com/image-photo/black-cat-working-computer-developer-260nw-730215814.jpg 10. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/486958_Arrokoth 11. https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/asteroids-comets-and-meteors/asteroids/overview/ 12. https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/solar-system/our-solar-system/in-depth/ 13. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_root_vegetables 14. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_Fools%27_Day 15. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap190522.html 16. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap190129.html 17. https://science.nasa.gov/get-involved/nasaathome 18. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap200331.html 19. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html 20. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/apsubmit2015.html 21. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/aptree.html 22. https://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/apod/apod_search 23. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/calendar/allyears.html 24. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod.rss 25. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/edlinks.html 26. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/about_apod.html 27. http://asterisk.apod.com/discuss_apod.php?date=200401 28. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap200402.html 29. http://www.phy.mtu.edu/faculty/Nemiroff.html 30. http://www.phy.mtu.edu/ 31. https://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/htmltest/jbonnell/www/bonnell.html 32. http://www.astro.umd.edu/ 33. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/about_apod.html#srapply 34. https://www.nasa.gov/about/highlights/HP_Privacy.html 35. https://astrophysics.gsfc.nasa.gov/ 36. https://www.nasa.gov/ 37. https://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/ 38. http://www.mtu.edu/