New Horizons' First Science on a Post-Pluto Object
Laurel MD (SPX) May 20, 2016 -
Warming up for a possible extended mission as it speeds through deep space, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has now twice observed 1994 JR1, a 90-mile (145-kilometer) wide Kuiper Belt object (KBO) orbiting more than 3 billion miles (5 billion kilometers) from the Sun. Science team members have used these observations to reveal new facts about this distant remnant of the early solar system.
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