Tag: 2014 MU69

  • New Horizons takes aim on next target

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    Artist’s concept of the New Horizons spacecraft’s encounter with a Kuiper Belt Object. Credit: NASA/SWRI/JHUAPL/Alex Parker In a triumph of deep space navigation and with Pluto shrinking in its wake, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has steered on a course to reach a tiny object named 2014 MU69 for a whirlwind visit on New Year’s Day…

  • Distant ice ball to become farthest object ever visited

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    Artist’s concept of the New Horizons spacecraft flying by a Kuiper Belt Object. Credit: Alex Parker A frozen fragment left over from the formation of the solar system is set to become the most distant object ever explored by a human-built space probe, scientists working on the New Horizons mission said Friday. The selection is…