Hey, gang! Been awhile since I posted some new lyrics here. I dropped these on AKALib’s excellent post on Ultima Thule yesterday, and he said they deserved their own diary! You can be the judge of that, though at least this time the darn thing should stay formatted properly. My friend RJ Johnson gave me the idea.
The tune? “Frosty the Snowman”.
Ultima Thule
Was a blob of rock and ice,
And this New Year New Horizons got near,
Sending pictures that were nice.
Six and a half billion
Kilometers away,
So it took some time, but the pics were fine,
And they just arrived today.
There must have been some iron in
The rock because it’s red,
No! Exotic ice irradiated
By cosmic rays instead.
Oh, Ultima Thule,
Like a snowman out in space,
Past our solar system, the most distant
Thing we’ve seen face to face.
Ultima Thule,
Really two rocks side by side,
Moving oh so slow that we kinda know
Just how gently they’d collide.
Ultima Thule,
Twenty-one miles end to end,
All this time it’s dwelt in the Kuiper Belt,
Now it’s finally got a friend.
We hope to find more clues to how
Our system came to be,
‘Cause unlike here in the interior,
There’s much less activity!
Oh, Ultima Thule,
May your samples prove pristine,
Then we’ll learn more ‘bout how we started out,
Where we’ll go and where we’ve been!