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A Kuiper Belt Pair? Artist's Concept of 2014 MU69 as a Binary Object

NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute/Alex Parker2017-08-03

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This is one artist's concept of Kuiper Belt object 2014 MU69, the next flyby target for NASA's New Horizons mission. This binary concept is based on telescope observations made at Patagonia, Argentina, on July 17, 2017, when MU69 passed in front of a star. New Horizons scientists theorize that it could be a single body with a large chunk taken out of it, or two bodies that are close together or even touching.

https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA21867

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  • Title: A Kuiper Belt Pair? Artist's Concept of 2014 MU69 as a Binary Object
  • Creator: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute/Alex Parker
  • Date Created: 2017-08-03
  • Rights: JPL
  • Album: kboggs
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