Author Correction: The wide-binary origin of (2014) MU-like Kuiper belt contact binaries.

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The wide-binary origin of (2014) MU-like Kuiper belt contact binaries.

Following its flyby and first imaging of the Pluto-Charon binary, the New Horizons spacecraft visited the Kuiper belt object (KBO) 2014 MU (also known as (486958) Arrokoth). The imaging showed MU to be a contact binary that rotates at a low spin period (15.92 hours), is made of two individual lobes connected by a narrow neck and has a high obliquity (about 98 degrees), properties that are similar to those of other KBO contact binaries inferred through photometric observations.