Ultima

A town in the Rural City of Swan Hill, north western Victoria, Australia

Proper noun

  1. A town in the Rural City of Swan Hill, north western Victoria, Australia

Derived

Ultima East

Proper noun Entry 2

  1. Synonym of Baroque (“chess variant”).

    Synonyms: Baroque

Proper noun Entry 3

  1. The larger lobe of the trans-Neptunian object Ultima Thule, a contact binary object.
    • For the purposes of discussion, MU₆₉’s larger and smaller lobes have been informally designated “Ultima” and “Thule,” respectively, by the New Horizons team. Ultima and Thule have best-fit measured diameters of ~19.5...
    • Ultima and Thule have similar colors with measured albedos ∼0.06, indicating that UT is a typical member of the Cold Classical Kuiper Belt class of objects. - 2020, Umurhan, O. M., J. T. Keane, R. A. Beyer, M. Bird, I....

Origin

Clipping of Ultima Thule. Coined in January 2019 by the NASA team investigators of the New Horizons program (see quotations below).