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New Horizons near 2014 MU69 - Artwork

by

Ron Miller/Novapix

Reference

e-son40-00026

Date

2018-05-12

Artist's concept of the New Horizons spacecraft flying by a possible binary 2014 MU69 on Jan. 1, 2019. Early observations of MU69 hint at the Kuiper Belt object being either a binary orbiting pair or a contact (stuck together) pair of nearly like-sized bodies with diameters near 20 and 18 kilometers (12 and 11 miles).