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An artist's concept of Arrokoth, a Kuiper Belt object visited by the New Horizons spacecraft in 2019. Scientists say two asteroids, 203 Pompeja and 269 Justitia, appear to have a similar color.
These distant objects are very red, containing complex organic compounds like methane and methanol ice. These compounds, when viewed through a spectrograph, give an asteroid its reddish appearance.