New Horizons Team Rises To Ultima Thule Challenge

Credit: NASA
HOUSTON—NASA’s New Horizons team members offered new details on the challenges they face planning the most distant planetary object flyby ever on Jan. 1, 2019, when the modest spacecraft will encounter a Kuiper Belt Object known as Ultima Thule about four billion miles from Earth. The New Horizons...

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