New Horizons (the probe that gave such great images of Pluto last year) is due to make has survived a flyby of Ultima Thule [aka Kuyper Belt Object (486958) 2014 MU69] on New Year's Day - the resulting images will take 20 months to be completely transmitted back to Earth.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-46610812
When the mission sweeps past the 30km wide object on New Year's Day, it will be making the most distant ever visit to a Solar System body - at some 6.5 billion km from Earth.
https://www.theguardian.com/science...edge-of-solar-system-ultima-thule-kuiper-belt
A New Year message from the edge of the solar system
Last week I did a tour of the ancient probes including New Horizons to basically show how much easier it was to locate them using the new FSS system.
[where is it]
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-46610812
When the mission sweeps past the 30km wide object on New Year's Day, it will be making the most distant ever visit to a Solar System body - at some 6.5 billion km from Earth.
https://www.theguardian.com/science...edge-of-solar-system-ultima-thule-kuiper-belt
A New Year message from the edge of the solar system
Last week I did a tour of the ancient probes including New Horizons to basically show how much easier it was to locate them using the new FSS system.
[where is it]
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