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Saturday 25 October 2014

Hubble identifies Kuiper Belt targets for New Horizons mission

Artist's impression of a Kuiper Belt Object (Image: NASA, ESA, and G. Bacon)


With NASA'S New Horizons spacecraft scheduled to pass Pluto next year, the space agency has announced the discovery of three Kuiper Belt objects (KBO); one of which may be the unmanned probe’s next destination. Located in the constellation of Sagittarius, the primordial asteroids were found after a detailed survey using the Hubble Space Telescope... Continue Reading Hubble identifies Kuiper Belt targets for New Horizons mission



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