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New Horizons: A Look At Its 9-Year Path to Pluto

#OTD in 2006, New Horizons began its groundbreaking journey through the solar system! New Horizons was the first mission to #Pluto, completing the space-age reconnaissance of the planets that started 50 years earlier. It was also the first mission to explore the solar system’s “third zone,” the region beyond the giant planets called the Kuiper Belt. New Horizons continued on its unparalleled voyage of exploration with the close flyby of Kuiper Belt object 2014 MU69 – officially named #Arrokoth (

NASA's New Horizons Spacecraft Sends Back Detail | Space

On Jan 1, 2019, New Horizons flew by the farthest object ever explored by human spacecraft. 2014 MU69, officially named Arrokoth, is a binary asteroid, which means it’s two things that fused together. Arrokoth is about about 50 AU, or 4 billion miles from the Sun, making it the most distant planetary flyby in history and the first close-up look at a solar system object of this type. http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/ | New Horizons