Title: 30-NMMNHS- NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft encountering 2014 MU69 – n
Illustration of NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft encountering 2014 MU69 – nicknamed “Ultima Thule” – a Kuiper Belt object that orbits one billion miles beyond Pluto. Set for New Year’s 2019, New Horizons’ exploration of Ultima will be the farthest space probe flyby in history.
Credit: Courtesy NASA/JHUAPL/SwR
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Tags: New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science
