http://www.timescall.com/longmont-local-news/ci_32483895?source=AP

The pockmarked peanut one billion miles past Pluto known as Ultima Thule does not have a lot of company in the cold vastness of the Kuiper Belt, scientists based at Boulder's Southwest Research Institute have discovered.

Data from the NASA's New Horizons mission, which accomplished a flyby of the Pluto-Charon system in July 2015 have indirectly found what scientists term a surprising lack of very small objects in the Kuiper Belt, a donut-shaped region of icy bodies beyond the orbit of Neptune that includes Ultima Thule, according to a news release.