{"product_id":"ultima-thule-english-roundhand","title":"Astronomy - Ultima Thule - English Roundhand","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn the first few hours New Year's Day 2019 the New Horizons spacecraft, the same craft that snapped gorgeous photos of Pluto 3 1\/2 years earlier, flew past the most distant object yet visited in our solar system, Ultima Thule. Ultima Thule is a trans-Neptunian or Kuiper Belt Object (a minor planet beyond Neptune) contact binary (2 objects that touch and orbiting a common center of gravity). Ultima is the larger of the two bodies with a diameter of 12 miles (19 km), Thule the smaller, with a diameter of about 9 mile (14 km). Its rotational period (an Ultima Thule day) is about 15 hours. It take 8 minutes for light from our Sun to reach Earth; it takes 6 hours to reach Ultima Thule. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAs in all the rest of my astronomical series, the calligraphy is in a traditional English Roundhand. I wanted to keep the letterforms and flourishing basic. Having no descenders in the word-set the T is the natural candidate to sprout the flourish. The flourish, extended yet simple creates an optical counterbalance to the planetoid, and a graphic \"nest\" for the words to rest upon. Being composed of 2 separate lines combined to form a single unit implies the nature of the planetary object itself without being literal.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'San Francisco', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv dir=\"auto\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e~2019, Don Marsh~\u003cbr\u003e©2019 Don Marsh\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Don Marsh","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42421266710622,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0640\/7828\/2846\/files\/Ultima_Thule__2019_Don_Marsh.jpg?v=1769273737","url":"https:\/\/donmarsharchive.com\/products\/ultima-thule-english-roundhand","provider":"Don Marsh","version":"1.0","type":"link"}