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New Horizons Kuiper Belt Extended Mission: MU 69 Occultation Campaign

Over six weeks and two continents, the New Horizons mission team got a rare preview of its next flyby target – a small Kuiper Belt object named 2014 MU69 – and a valuable chance to gather some critical encounter-planning information.

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