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[redsamuraiii]

For those who read widely and take an interest in Asia — likely readers of this article — chances are they will have picked up a book put out by Tuttle Publishing at one time or another.

History of Tuttle Publishing

While the Tuttle family business can be traced back to 1832, making it one of the oldest American publishers still in operation, according to the company, the Japan presence was established in 1948 when Charles Tuttle, noticed a gap in the market.

Initially arriving in Japan to work in the newspaper industry as part of the American Occupation, Tuttle later began importing American books for U.S. troops stationed in the country, and ferrying Japanese books back to the United States for interested readers.

He later opened what was reportedly Tokyo's first English-language bookstore, before publishing thousands of Asia-focused books himself. Before his death, Tuttle was awarded the Order of the Sacred Treasure by Emperor Showa for his work.

Tuttle Publishing and Japan

Tuttle’s longtime presence in the market means it has an extensive back catalog that is now in high demand, fueled by the current boom in interest in Japanese culture. As interest in Japanese authors has grown, so has demand for Tuttle's early print editions.

“Because they’re hard to get hold of ... they can go for silly prices sometimes, because people collect them or tourists want Japanese literature,” he said. Tourists in particular go straight for them, as they’re hungry for Japanese stories to take home as souvenirs.

Prints vs Digital and AI

Despite people long decrying the death of print or the end of books, the publishing industry is growing stronger. During the pandemic in 2020, Tuttle saw a surge in book sales, and while this has subsided somewhat, “book sales are now higher than before the pandemic.”

Personally, although reading digitally on tablets is much more convenient and save space on bookshelf, the feeling of holding something physical, the smell of books and the sense of detachment from the world in going offline is something that readers love.

Below are 10 books that I have read from Tuttle Publishing that I would recommend those who are interested in Japanese culture.

A Brief History of Japan

The perfect book to understand Japan's history as it sums up everything concisely, not too brief and not too detailed.

A History of Japan in Manga

If you're not into reading books full of texts and more of a visual reader, then this one is for you as it's explained with manga.

The Heikei Story

The defining moment in history where the warrior class Samurai began to rise to its prominence to overthrow the Imperials.

Hiroshige's Japan

Join a French artist as he explores the old Tokaido Road that once connected Edo (Tokyo) and Kyoto as he shares his illustrations.

Japan Journeys

A collection of woodblock printing art which journals the travelers experience in Edo Period moving from one prefecture to the other.

My Travels in Japan

A cute travel diary which accounts her travel experience in modern Japan which consists of illustrations of places she visited.

Japan in 100 Words

Everything you need to know about Japan, from its culture, tradition, philosophy, food and pop culture, categorised into 100 sections.

Samurai Castles

History and design of the architecture of the iconic castles, which shows the uniqueness of each castle with photos and drawings.

Manga Yokai Stories

The short stories of Yokai and how they came to be, which are meant to demonstrate the humanity and tragedy of life.

Lady Murasaki's Tale of Genji

A story written by a Heian woman who envisions her version of an ideal man and depicts the life in the Imperial court of her time.

#tuttle publishing #japanese books #japan #book recommendations #japanese culture #japanese history #japan times #manga #japan travel #japanese art

[downthetubes]

Creating Comics: Sean Michael Wilson on adapting the world’s oldest known novel, The Tale of Genji, into manga

How do you adapt a 1000-plus page novel into comics? Writer Sean Michael Wilson has some thoughts…

American publisher Tuttle Publishing recently released a manga adaptation of The Tale of Genji by Lady Murasaki Shikibu, the world’s oldest known novel, adapted by Sean Michael Wilson and Inko Ai Takita, and Sean was recently interviewed about this challenging project. The Tale of Genji centres on the life and loves of Prince Hikaru Genji, a son born to an Emperor of Japan during the Heian…

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#downthetubes News #Inko Ai Takita #Lady Murasaki Shikibu #Manga #Sean Michael Wilson #The Tale of Genji #Tuttle Publishing

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Haruki Murakami: Manga Stories is an interesting collection of four manga stories

Haruki Murakami: Manga Stories is an interesting collection of four manga stories #comics #comicbooks #ncbd #graphicnovel #manga

Haruki Murakami‘s stories in graphic novel form for the first time! Haruki Murakami’s novels, essays and short stories have sold millions of copies worldwide and been translated into dozens of languages. Now for the first time, many of Murakami’s best-loved short stories are available in graphic novel form in English. Haruki Murakami Manga Stories 1 is the first of three volumes, which will…

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#featured #haruki murakami #haruki murakami: manga stories #jc deveney #manga #pmgl #tuttle publishing #video

[jmawork]

I should just draw bats all of October tbh

#I bought a great book at Goodwill by Merlin Tuttle about how to live with bats! #Lots of good pics and cute sketchy illustrations #published in 1988 originally so it's incredibly charming

[unfoldingmoments]

The Tuttle Story: "Books to Span the East and West"

Many people are surprised to learn that the world's largest publisher of books on Asia had its humble beginnings in the tiny American state of Vermont. The company's founder, Charles E. Tuttle, belonged to a New England family steeped in publishing. Immediately after WW II, Tuttle served in Tokyo under General Douglas MacArthur and was tasked with reviving the Japanese publishing industry. He later founded the Charles E. Tuttle Publishing Company, which thrives today as one of the world's leading independent publishers. Though a westerner, Tuttle was hugely instrumental in bringing a knowledge of Japan and Asia to a world hungry for information about the East. By the time of his death in 1993, Tuttle had published over 6,000 books on Asian culture, history and art—a legacy honored by the Japanese emperor with the "Order of the Sacred Treasure," the highest tribute Japan can bestow upon a non-Japanese. “With a backlist of 1,500 titles, Tuttle Publishing is more active today than at any time in its past—inspired by Charles Tuttle's core mission to publish fine books to span the East and West and provide a greater understanding of each.”

Excerpt From: Yoel Hoffmann. “Japanese Death Poems: Written by Zen Monks and Haiku Poets on the Verge of Death.” Apple Books. Interesting Tuttle humble beginning story, yet the irony I had since 2007 still lingers, about the print is dead, publishing struggles in the new age of tech since Amazon Kindle. The News Media struggles to compete with all this digital platform. 2007 was the wake up call when the recession hits Australia, right after my graduation. Lots of publishing company collapsed and forcefully laid of its workers.

Last weekend I went over to BBW Big Bad Wolf book sales of the year, most of the visitors are book enthusiast obviously but the range of the book is not much, import book are leftovers, the Indonesian book are just not interesting enough. The only biggest range was the children section, selling along with the toys. This year some Indonesia bookstores has closed their offline stores (Book & Beyond, Gunung Agung end of this year) due to bankruptcy and big sales is the only time for book lovers to buy at bargain price. Only 3 bookstores has left in Jakarta alone (Kinokuniya, Periplus, Gramedia). I wonder what will be the fate of printed books and bookstores in the near future? Where book has its expired date when we don't know how to take care of them. Today just got a second hand book that has been yellowish and fungi mould from second hand book online store. Hope all the book out there has a second life. Burn after reading.

#tuttlepublishing #tuttle #book #bookpublishing #publisher

[benkyoutobentou]

27/30 Days of Productivity

October 27:

Today was more of the same in terms of Mandarin study, just two modules in Duolingo. I’m still sitting at number one in the rankings! I also just have two more modules to go in this unit, so my current plan is to finish this section tomorrow and then move on to more textbook study and finding some beginner stories to read over the weekend! I’m also reaching the point in my beginner stage where instead of everything feeling overwhelmingly new, the new stuff is becoming very exciting, especially when it lines up with my Japanese knowledge. I was extremely happy learning the word 注意 today lol.

Although I didn’t make any massive progress in Mandarin today, I did in Japanese! I finished キッチン today, even ahead of the reading schedule that I had planned out for myself. The novelty of finishing full books in Japanese still hasn’t been lost on me, as this is only my third novel I’ve finished in Japanese. I really feel like every novel I read gets easier, and I think my reading speed is picking up as well! I still want to read We Have Always Lived in the Castle on Halloween, so this weekend I’ll probably dedicate some time to reading manga, as I always have so many unread volumes on my shelves.

Next month is another Tadoku round too, so I’m thinking ahead for some reading plans there as well. I’ve got quite a few novels that I can choose from, and I hope to at least keep up my goal of ten pages per day. I also would like to spend some time immersing in and doing some intensive reading on short stories written in 文語. As I learn and read more, I’ve realized that one thing I really want to do is read classic literature in my target languages. Luckily I have a book of Japanese short stories that includes stories such as 蜘蛛の糸, so I’ve got some laid out to read. But these are all next month’s plans.

#honestly i think im really gonna miss doing these daily updates #this is the first time that ive enjoyed writing down my daily thoughts #mandarin #chinese #polyglot #studyblr #langblr #language learning #benkyou posting #30 days of productivity #oh btw the book that i have is japanese stories for language learners #its published by tuttle and is bilingual so it has english and japanese side by side #i read the first two stories in the book a long time ago but then stopped when they started using literary language #side note why did all the classic japanese writers die by suicide #as in i can name four just off the top of my head

[gallusrostromegalus]

Hi Gallus! Regarding the Furry Anatomy Book: It's called "How to Draw Manga Furries" by Tuttle Publishing, ISBN: 9784805316832. The publishing house has a page for it (I can't link in an ask I think) and you might find it on Amazon too. It's a pretty good book to start with drawing furries. Hope this helps!

Baller, thank you!

[afoolandathief]

Sharing my original works before I possibly take them down from AO3

I was probably going to take these down eventually but the news of fanworks being stolen by shit publishing companies on Amazon has made me more apt to take these down now. But before that happens, might as well share them again:

The Friendly Visitors

Benjamin Tuttle is a simple insurance salesman, just trying to make a life for himself and his wife in the Roaring 20s. That all changes when two goons show up the morning after a mugger attacks and bites him, introducing him to a gang of bootleggers and some dark, bloody secrets.

Basically, vampires and Fae folk and witches and werewolves meet 1920s gangsters. Unfinished. Dead Dove Do Not Eat.

Hymn to a Washed-up God

After a drunken night, Dionysus, god of wine and mania, blackmails god of craftsmen Hephaestus to embark with him on a wild journey to the Underworld.

A cross-country road trip featuring Greek gods that gets into the loss of loved ones and twink death. Unfinished. Dead Dove Do Not Eat.

#my writing #writeblr #ao3 #htawug #fire & wine #the friendly visitors

[mejomonster]

How did you learn Chinese, like did you use a specific program like Duolingo or did you take classes? How hard was it to read Priest's novels with where you were at in your language learning journey? I want to get back into learning (been wanting to since I watched The Untamed,) but I gave up about 8 months ago 😭

Hey ovo)/ so uh. That's a big question. I have a studyblr @rigelmejo so if you really want the full on journey lol its on there, steps i took and what I studied and progress and study tools I found and used and stuff I've linked for people.

For the shortest tip I can give you? Would be to check out the Heavenly Path site if you're interested in learning to read novels. You'll need to figure out your own way to study about 1000 common hanzi, basic grammar, and basic pronunciation (I link resources on rigelmejo), but after that point the Heavenly Path site has reading resources for graded reading, easier kids novels, easier manhua, webnovels by difficulty level, all the way up! So you can at that point just follow their recommendations and use reading tools they link (like Pleco and Readibu apps which I suggest you download asap - they include tools where you can click a chinese word when reading for translation and audio pronunciation and pinyin). So yeah at 1000 hanzi, just start reading from their suggestions! (Also consider downloading Bilibili Comics app as it has English and Chinese free manhua, so you can start reading manhua earlier, and youtube/viki.com learn mode and Any platforms with dual english/chinese subs and start trying to look up 1 word every 5 minutes or more as curious and practicing reading the chinese words in subs you've learned). I suggest you check out all pages on the Heavenly site, they link a ton of resources.

The short-ish version of what I did the first year I studied chinese? I fumbled a lot, read through an entire grammar guide summary in a few weeks here http://chinese-grammar.com/, watched some YouTube tone videos and went through a pronunciation guide here https://www.dong-chinese.com/learn/sounds/pinyin which took a week or two and I'd do it every few months, read through the book Learning Chinese Characters: (HSK Levels 1-3) A Revolutionary New Way to Learn the 800 Most Basic Chinese Characters by Tuttle publishing in about 2 months (I really liked their mnemonics to help me remember hanzi), started Ben Whatley memrise decks 1000 Chinese common words and 2000 common words (took about 2 weeks to finish one then I took a few months break then studied the other 1000, mainly focusing on studying new words and not reviewing until the last week if I had time - in retrospect I think learners would do better with the Chinese Spoonfed Anki deck but the memrise courses I used worked fine for me). I was watching cdramas as usual most weeks, English subs with the Chinese hardsubs on the video file like most youtube cdramas, with Google Translate app on my phone to look up a word every several minutes as curious. Once I was 3ish months in and learning the memrise Ben Whatley 2000 common chinese words, I read some Mandarin Companion graded readers in Pleco app then some more 300-600 word graded readers in Pleco. That gets me to like month 6ish. Then I started reading manhua and looking up words in pleco or Google translate when I needed to in order to grasp main idea overall (or was curious about a particular word). Kept reading graded readers in pleco.

Around month 8 I tried 天涯客 and 镇魂, both brutally hard. I was reading in Pleco in the Clipboard Reader (from websites) or the Reader tool (i bought it for like $20 dollars along with handwriting recognition, OCR, and expanded dictionaries). Mandarinspot.com has a good reading tool too that can add pinyin if you need it, and Readibu in some ways i prefer to Pleco depending on your particular reading needs on a given day. Tried a few easier webnovels, tried a pingxie fanfic 寒舍 which was hard but easier than priest novels (love that fanfic). I kept bouncing between webnovels then around month 10 天涯客 novels took about 1.5 hours to read through a chapter. At that point I brute force tried to read it or 寒舍 daily with 1 chapter a day, got 28 chapters in before i burned out with 天涯客 and 60ish chapters into 寒舍. It was about a year in. I cram studied 500 hanzi in some common hanzi deck with mnemonics I found on anki over a month, hoping if I improved vocab I'd read easier. I also was gradually trying to watch more cdrama with only chinese subs, around month 6 I finally watched Granting You a Dreamlike life full episodes with no eng subs (about 5-10 word lookups an episode), watched 15ish eps, then after that shows got less daunting to try watching.

A little over a year in Word of Honor came out and I watched it in chinese first because I was too impatient for eng subs. After that went decently I got braver about reading, tried Listening Reading Method (see @rigelmejo for those experiments), more stuff etc like extensive reading with no word lookups.

In retrospect I WISH I'd started with easier novels Heavenly Path recommended. However on the other hand? I've seen people who read their first cnovel with Pleco as early as 3-6 months in which blows my mind. So me picking hard novels to start isn't the Hardest thing in comparison lol. This past year (so at start of year 3 studying lol) I actually read like 10 things on Heavenly Paths easier recommendations and it helped immensely in filling in gaps in vocab and reading fluidity I had. So if you do pick a priest novel as your first novel and manage to chug through it without giving up, be aware "easier" novels may still have stuff you can learn later so don't rule them out as reading materials later on.

I've also seen people do literally no study except maybe some curious Google searches on hanzi or grammar or pronunciation, then brute force read novels in Readibu until they improved. A brutal way to do it but possible. (I really recommend at minimum learning hanzi are made of radicals though as it makes recognizing and remembering them so much easier).

I think the best thing I did for learning to read was just being Brave and Trying to read regularly. And it gradually got less hard.

#replies #ask #chinese #do not use duolingo to learn chinese im sorry. i mean u can but im begging u do something else Too #duolingo is paced so Slowly. to make progress at a pace you may prefer #i really recommend almost Anything else at a decent pace. most popular textbooks go at decent pace #hell even brute force just opening novels in Readibu or Pleco and slowly reading word by word to learn #is faster

[rabbitindisguise]

they straight up forgot to include a "repeat step 6 for all four corners" what the heck!! I only know based on having done approximately a billion origami models and the close up of the model at step 7 and again at step 9. I don't think struggling with this one is my fault this time, it's the writers who are wrong

nonetheless let's see where this goes

. . .

lightly shape the paper?? this is why I hate flowers. can't be geometric to save their lives smh

. . .

other types of art are like uwu happy accidents! except not origami though. if you did it wrong it's your fault and you gotta try it again no matter how many miserable extra crease marks you get

anyway I did it and it's adorable 10/10 ^^ glad I had red/green two toned paper, it works perfectly for this model specifically (it's the square rosebud from Naomiki Sato's origami roses, I believe published by tuttle)

#personal #origami

[garadinervi]

Richard Tuttle: Twenty Floor Drawings, Institute of Contemporary Art, Amsterdam / SDU Publishers, Den Haag 1991 [BOOKS@, Amsterdam. © Richard Tuttle]

Text: Susan Harris Editor: Beth O'Brien Translation: Nelleke van Maaren Photograpoher: Paternoster, Amsterdam Design: Hans Bocking (UNA) Typesetting and Printing: Drukkerij Roskeek, Nuth

Exhibition: Institute of Contemporary Art, Amsterdam, 1991

#graphic design #art #drawing #sculpture #structure #pattern #catalogue #catalog #cover #back cover #richard tuttle #susan harris #beth o'brien #nelleke van maaren #paternoster #hans bocking #drukkerij roskeek #institute of contemporary art amsterdam #1990s

[redsamuraiii]

Book Recommendation : JAPAN JOURNEYS

Unlike today where you can post countless travel photos on social media for all to see, in Edo Period Japan, people share pictures of beautiful travel destinations via woodblock art.

After years of civil wars and restrictions on individual mobility, travel became a popular leisure activity in Japan, thanks to the development of a network of well built and fairly safe roads.

Like today, traveling provides opportunities to experience culinary and cultural specialties. This enjoyment was reflected vividly in woodblock prints for those who did not get to travel.

These prints were sold or displayed at marketplaces or festivals where people get to see beautiful sceneries of places they had never been to before, which encouraged more to travel.

The historic views of Japan have been preserved over the generations, offering a fascinating perspective on familiar locations for tourists both domestic and foreign today.

In this book, art historian, Andreas Marks, has gathered a selection of detailed woodblock prints depicting scenic spots and cultural icons that still delight visitors today in Japan.

You’ll see what places like Kyoto, Osaka and Tokyo looked like in the 19th century. And you’ll be surprised to see how the temples and castles look the same but not the background.

Buildings and architectures that have withstood the test of time, being rebuilt or preserved from Edo Period till today, which makes Japan one of the most unique travel destinations.

A pleasant read for travel and Japan enthusiasts who love photography and art. As each woodblock print has a story of its own through the eyes of the Japanese artists.

#japan journeys #andreas marks #tuttle publishing #japan #woodblock print #edo period #japanese culture #japanese art #japanese book #book therapy #book of the day #book recommendations #geisha #japanese castle #kyoto #kamakura #himeji #hiroshima

[octoberland]

Night Country - Episode 5

Here there be potential spoilers.

So I'm just going to open with one wild theory. And maybe this is just wishful thinking but I'm posting it anyway.

I'm a storyteller. I write. Not for a living but I've been published and my work has received some high praise. And I'm currently teaching screenwriting to youth in my community.

As a storyteller, I don't see how in the ever loving fuck they are going to wrap everything up in one more episode. Either there's going to be a lot of unanswered questions and/or the season will have a disappointing closing.

So here's the thought I had while watching tonight:

I wonder if there will be a second season of Night Country. I know that would be a huge break from the format of the show and would incite a lot of debate and negativity from certain fans. But I just don't see how this will get wrapped up. Unless, UNLESS. Rust makes an appearance in the final episode which leads to a new season focusing back on Rust. Which I would have mixed feelings about.

Speaking of Rust, I had a thought about that too.

There's still a lot of debate about whether there is anything supernatural going on or if it's all just chemical poisoning. Personally, I would like it if there was something supernatural because I like that kind of stuff. But I also recognize that the show does not usually step directly into supernatural territory.

I've been trying to think about how the spirals in season one and season four connect, about how Issa said this is an inverse of the first season, and about how Rust saw that spiral vortex above him in the finale. What if - and this is a BIG what if - Liz and Evangeline go into the ice caves, find a spiral vortex, and see Rust on the other side of it? They wouldn't know who he is, of course, but we would.

On a more realistic note, I'm still mulling over the scientists. Obviously, the avalanche is horseshit. Though it's pretty good horseshit. But I doubt it's the truth. One thing I was reminded of this episode was of something that happened in 2016. The Havana Incident. Look it up. It's not proven but there's a theory that an unknown weapon caused people to have cognitive symptoms.

Initially I was thinking that Tuttle was trying to create some sort of paleo superbug. What if it's all a cover? Not just the mine but the ice research too? What if it's actually a weapon Tuttle is building? Something that can drive people mad? And Ennis is just the guinea pigs?

I know that's another kind of far fetched thought but it was something that came to mind.

Anyway, I really liked this episode. I thought the last one was kind of lackluster though I understand why they needed to do it.

And poor Peter. I have such a soft spot for puppy dog detectives. See also Colin Zabel.

#night country #true detective #spoilers #theories

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Haruki Murakami: Manga Stories is an interesting collection of four manga stories

Haruki Murakami: Manga Stories is an interesting collection of four manga stories #manga #comics #comicbooks #graphicnovel

Haruki Murakami‘s stories in graphic novel form for the first time! Haruki Murakami’s novels, essays and short stories have sold millions of copies worldwide and been translated into dozens of languages. Now for the first time, many of Murakami’s best-loved short stories are available in graphic novel form in English. Haruki Murakami Manga Stories 1 is the first of three volumes, which will…

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#featured #haruki murakami #haruki murakami: manga stories #jc deveney #manga #pmgl #tuttle publishing #video

[librarycomic]

Festival of Shadows: A Japanese Ghost Story by Atelier Sento. Tuttle, 2023. 9784805317242. 160pp. http://www.powells.com/book/-9784805317242?partnerid=34778&p_bt

Naoko and her friend Katsu are the youngest people (by a lot) at the gatherings of those living with shadows. Each person shares information they've learned about the spirit they're taking responsibility for, and they try to help one another identify who the spirits were when they were alive. (They can talk to their spirit and see them clearly, but no one else can.) Naoko failed her shadow at the village's festival recently, and she's already got another spirit she's trying to help -- a sad, quiet young man who's not revealing much about himself. She has a year, until the next festival, to figure out who he was in life and help him.

It's a story set in a small town that develops very slowly. Having the shadow follow her around finally gives way to him revealing bits about his life and who he was. As he becomes more and more a part of Naoko's life, she starts to have feelings for him.

This story is a bit more adult than Atelier Sento's amazing Onibi, which Tuttle also published in English a few years ago. Note: Naoko is a bit older than she looks at first glance, so I recommend reading this first if you buy it for your library, to decide where to shelve it.

#bookreview #graphicnovel #graphicnovelreview #ghosts #japan

[spacetimewithstuartgary]

Large mound structures on Kuiper belt object Arrokoth may have common origin A new study led by Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) Planetary Scientist and Associate Vice President Dr. Alan Stern posits that the large, approximately 5-kilometer-long mounds that dominate the appearance of the larger lobe of the pristine Kuiper Belt object Arrokoth are similar enough to suggest a common origin. The SwRI study suggests that these “building blocks” could guide further work on planetesimal formational models. Stern presented these findings this week at the American Astronomical Society’s 55th Annual Division for Planetary Sciences (DPS) meeting in San Antonio. These results are now also published in the peer-reviewed Planetary Science Journal. NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft made a close flyby of Arrokoth in 2019. From those data, Stern and his coauthors identified 12 mounds on Arrokoth’s larger lobe, Wenu, which are almost the same shape, size, color and reflectivity. They also tentatively identified three more mounds on the object’s smaller lobe, Weeyo. “It's amazing to see this object so well preserved that its shape directly reveals these details of its assembly from a set of building blocks all very similar to one another,” said Lowell Observatory’s Dr. Will Grundy, co-investigator of the New Horizons mission. “Arrokoth almost looks like a raspberry, made of little sub-units.” Arrokoth’s geology supports the streaming instability model of planetesimal formation where collision speeds of just a few miles per hour allowed objects to gently accumulate to build Arrokoth in a local area of the solar nebula undergoing gravitational collapse. “Similarities including in sizes and other properties of Arrokoth’s mound structures suggest new insights into its formation,” Stern, the Principal Investigator of the New Horizons mission, said. “If the mounds are indeed representative of the building blocks of ancient planetesimals like Arrokoth, then planetesimal formation models will need to explain the preferred size for these building blocks.” There is a good chance that some of the flyby targets for NASA’s Lucy mission to Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids and ESA’s comet interceptor will be other pristine planetesimals, which could contribute to the understanding of accretion of planetesimals elsewhere in the ancient solar system and whether they differ from processes New Horizons found in the Kuiper Belt. “It will be important to search for mound-like structures on the planetesimals these missions observe to see how common this phenomenon is, as a further guide to planetesimal formation theories,” Stern said. The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland, designed, built and operates the New Horizons spacecraft, and manages the mission for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate. Southwest Research Institute, based in San Antonio, directs the mission via Principal Investigator Stern, who leads the science team, payload operations and encounter science planning. New Horizons is part of the New Frontiers Program managed by NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama.

TOP IMAGE....The large mound structures that dominate one of the lobes of the Kuiper belt object Arrokoth are similar enough to suggest a common origin, according to a new study led by Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) Planetary Scientist and Associate Vice President Dr. Alan Stern. CREDIT Southwest Research Institute

LOWER IMAGE....Observations of the Kuiper Belt object Arrokoth suggest it formed from an assembly of similarly sized objects, brought together at low speeds in a local area undergoing gravitational collapse. These findings support the streaming instability model of planetesimal formation and are described in a new study led by Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) Planetary Scientist and Associate Vice President Dr. Alan Stern.  CREDIT New Horizons/NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI/James Tuttle Keane

#science #space #astronomy #physics #news #nasa #astrophysics