{"id":18603,"date":"2018-03-13T19:51:19","date_gmt":"2018-03-13T11:51:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/scientists-give-nickname-to-new-horizons-probes-post-pluto-target-ultima-thule\/"},"modified":"2018-03-13T19:51:19","modified_gmt":"2018-03-13T11:51:19","slug":"scientists-give-nickname-to-new-horizons-probes-post-pluto-target-ultima-thule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/scientists-give-nickname-to-new-horizons-probes-post-pluto-target-ultima-thule\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientists give nickname to New Horizons probe\u2019s post-Pluto target: Ultima Thule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>News Brief:<\/strong> Nearly three years after flying past Pluto, NASA\u2019s New Horizons spacecraft is heading for a target more than 4 billion miles from Earth. It\u2019s officially known as 2014 MU69, but now the New Horizons team has decided to call it Ultima Thule (\u201cUL-ti-ma THOO-lee\u201d), or Ultima for short. Ultima Thule is a Latin term that traditionally refers to a place beyond the known world, and it was one of the favorites in an online contest conducted last year. But the nickname may not stick: An official name will be proposed to the International Astronomical Union after New Horizons\u2019 Jan. 1 flyby, when Ultima becomes a known world. Or maybe worlds.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Where is NASA's New Horizons? It's Exploring - More Pluto and New Target News\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gfZ05PE0Eyg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen=\"\" data-ratio=\"0.5625\" data-width=\"800\" data-height=\"450\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px; width: 800px; height: 450px;\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News Brief: Nearly three years after flying past Pluto, NASA\u2019s New Horizons spacecraft is heading for a target more than 4 billion miles from Earth. It\u2019s officially known as 2014 MU69, but now the New Horizons team has decided to call it Ultima Thule (\u201cUL-ti-ma THOO-lee\u201d), or Ultima for short. Ultima Thule is a Latin [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2337,2173,4809,2174,4810],"class_list":["post-18603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-2014-mu69","tag-kuiper-belt","tag-nasa-new-horizons","tag-new-horizons","tag-new-horizons-probe"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18603"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18603\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}