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Thule , name given by the ancients to the most northerly land of Europe. It was an island discovered and described (c.310 BC) by the Greek navigator Pytheas and variously identified with Iceland, Norway, and the Shetland Islands. The phrase "Ultima Thule" is used figuratively to denote the most distant goal of human endeavor or a land remote beyond all reckoning.

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Thule Asteroid 279, discovered in 1888 by the Austrian astronomer Johann Palisa (1848–1925). Thule is a D-class asteroid of diameter 130 km. With its semimajor axis of 4.270 AU, near the 3 : 4 commensurability of period with Jupiter, it is regarded as marking the outer edge of the main asteroid belt. Its orbital period is 8.82 years, perihelion 4.23 AU, aphelion 4.33 AU, and inclination 2 °.3.

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ultima Thule a distant unknown region; the extreme limit of travel and discovery; the Latin phrase means ‘furthest Thule’ (see Thule).

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