ARLA/CLUSTER: Nova aproximação épica da nave New Horizons de objecto na Cintura de Kuiper está a menos de um ano de distância

[João Costa > CT1FBF]

New Horizons' epic second flyby is less than a year away

The countdown to New Horizons' historic second flyby has now begun in
earnest.

The NASA spacecraft, which famously zoomed past Pluto in July 2015, is set
to cruise by a small object called 2014 MU69
<https://www.space.com/32049-kbo-2014-mu69.html> less than 12 months from
now — in the wee hours of Jan. 1, 2019, while many of us will be drinking
Champagne and singing "Auld Lang Syne."

"Our flyby of MU69 on New Year’s Eve and New Year's Day 2019 will be an
exciting sequel to the historic exploration New Horizons performed at Pluto
in 2015," New Horizons principal investigator Alan Stern, from the
Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) in Boulder, Colorado, said in a
statement. "Nothing even like MU69 has ever been explored before." [Destination
Pluto: NASA's New Horizons Mission in Pictures
<https://www.space.com/16533-pluto-new-horizons-spacecraft-pictures.html>]

Read the full Space.Com article, with pictures and video at:
https://www.space.com/39287-new-horizons-2014-mu69-flyby-2019.html
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