New Horizons probe reveals Ultima Thule is huge, spinning... chicken drumstick?

We'll have a better idea when fresh 2014 MU69 snaps look less like Minecraft

NASA's teenage New Horizons probe has successfully passed within 2,200 miles of 2014 MU69, some four billion miles from the Sun, three years after taking a close look at Pluto and nearly 13 years after launch."