New Horizons' rendezvous with Ultima Thule went off without a hitch, NASA says
Tuesday, January 1, 2019 - 11:20
in Astronomy & Space
It’s official. Four billion miles from Earth, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft successfully sped past a small, cold Kuiper Belt object known as Ultima Thule Monday night, busily collecting data on the most distant world ever visited by humankind. The flyby occurred at 9:33 p.m. PST New Year’s Eve,...