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NASA renames cosmic body after nicknaming it with term used by Nazis
November 13, 2019 / Marcy Oster, JTA

(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” in the Native American Powhatan language. The trans-Neptunian object’s official designation is 2014… Read more »