New Horizons NASA's Mission to Pluto and the Kuiper Belt
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December 12, 2017
New Horizons Explores the Kuiper Belt
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft is speeding toward a New Year's Day 2019 rendezvous with Kuiper Belt object 2014 MU69, set to be the farthest planetary encounter in history.
On Dec. 12, the New Horizons team briefed the media at the 2017 American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting in New Orleans, covering the scientific and operational elements of this amazing exploration. The team discussed the initial recon on MU69, the dozens of observations of other KBOs that no other spacecraft can provide, and how this multifaceted mission through the Kuiper Belt builds on the discovery and unprecedented excitement of New Horizons' 2015 Pluto encounter.
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Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute
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Director, Planetary Science Division NASA Headquarters
New Horizons Mission Principal Investigator Southwest Research Institute
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New Horizons Co-Investigator Southwest Research Institute
Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute/James Tuttle Keane
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New Horizons Mission Operations Manager Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory
New Horizons Deputy Project Scientist Southwest Research Institute
New Horizons Project Scientist Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory
New Horizons Assistant Project Scientist University of Virginia