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NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute/Alex Parker - Article: http://astronomynow.com/2015/08/28/nasas-new-horizons-team-selects-potential-kuiper-belt-flyby-target/ Direct links to file: Medium-resolution (used in the article): http://astronomynow.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/nh-path_940x542.jpg High-resolution: https://planetary.s3.amazonaws.com/assets/images/9-small-bodies/2014/20141001_WithPluto_labels.png The orbit of 2014 MU69 with the path of New Horizons.
5 posted on 07/11/2017 2:53:00 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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NASA Pluto probe’s next target may actually be ‘swarm’ of objects
By Mike Wall Space.com
“The fact that we accomplished the occultation observations from every planned observing site but didn’t detect the object itself likely means that either MU69 is highly reflective and smaller than some expected, or it may be a binary or even a swarm of smaller bodies left from the time when the planets in our solar system formed,”
http://www.foxnews.com/science/2017/07/07/nasa-pluto-probes-next-target-may-actually-be-swarm-objects.html


7 posted on 07/11/2017 2:55:53 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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