New Horizons team selects potential Kuiper Belt flyby target
Saturday, August 29, 2015 - 08:20
in Astronomy & Space
NASA has selected the potential next destination for the New Horizons mission to visit after its historic July 14 flyby of the Pluto system. The destination is a small Kuiper Belt object (KBO) known as 2014 MU69 that orbits nearly a billion miles beyond Pluto.