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NASA and New Horizons team pick post-Pluto target … and serve up an awesome video
An artist’s conception shows the New Horizons spacecraft flying past a Pluto-like object in the Kuiper Belt, the ring of icy material that lies billions of miles away from the sun. (Credit: Alex Parker / NASA / JHUAPL / SwRI)
NASA and the science team behind the New Horizons mission to Pluto and beyond have settled on the popular choice for the spacecraft’s next flyby: It’s 2014 MU69, an icy object a billion miles beyond Pluto that’s thought to be about 30 miles (50 kilometers) wide.
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Post tags: kuiper belt objects, new horizons kuiper belt
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Source: http://www.universetoday.com/122084/nasa-and-new-horizons-team-pick-post-pluto-target-and-serve-up-an-awesome-video/
New horizon’s mission is essentially to monitor planet x and follow its entry in our solar system, which I think , is happening right now.