I have not done one of these in a long while, so for today Chittr, I offer thee a space fact. Arrokoth (desg. 486958) is an object within the Kuiper Belt. The Kuiper Belt, for those unaware, is a circumstellar disc in the outer Earth Solar System consisting of mainly small bodies or remnants from the formation of the Solar System. This object (Arrokoth) is noted for its distinctive reddish surface and that it was the farthest object in the Solar System ever visited by a spacecraft. In 2024, a paper written by Zhang, Leyva, Wang & Kaiser (Edited by de Pater) evidenced the chemical compositions and fundamental processes happening on Arrokoth indicate the presence of sugars. They evidence this by implicating that Arrokoth may processes menthol-containing ice mixtures and synthesise sugar-related molecules like glycolaldehyde through radiation exposure!
