associated paper is this
so i made a CMOD of the mesh, and a natural color map using a Wikipedia image, this process involved in map making Blender, the new mesh, and Askaniy's TrueColorTools, did final cleanups in GIMP
(code below is originally from CO)
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"486958 Arrokoth:Arrokoth:2014 MU69:Ultima Thule:1110113Y:PT1" "Sol"
{
Class "asteroid"
Mesh "arrokoth.cmod"
Orientation [ -50 0 1 0 ]
Texture "arrokoth.*"
Radius 18 # maximum semi-axis
EllipticalOrbit
{
Epoch 2458484.5 # 2019 Jan 01 (New Horizons encounter)
Period 297.371052339075
SemiMajorAxis 44.55129423264393
Eccentricity 0.04097873475827028
Inclination 2.451769758298457
AscendingNode 158.9786644650622
ArgOfPericenter 174.6720281547497
MeanAnomaly 315.8844151813905
}
UniformRotation
{
Period 15.938
Inclination 98.18711913
AscendingNode 42.5072541
}
LunarLambert 0.5
GeomAlbedo 0.165
BondAlbedo 0.061
InfoURL "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/486958_Arrokoth"
}