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Summiting the Solar System" is a story of exploration at its most ambitious and extreme. The feature-length documentary is debuting in December 2018, just before NASA's New Horizons spacecraft flies by a small Kuiper Belt Object known scientifically as 2014 MU69, but nicknamed "Ultima Thule." »
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Ultima Thule in 3D