NASA's New Horizons Wakes Up To Explore Primitive World Beyond Pluto: What Is Ultima Thule?

[Judi Lynn]

9 June 2018, 8:53 am EDT By Allan Adamson Tech Times



NASA's New Horizons spacecraft is now awake at 3.7 billion miles away from home. It now flies through the Kuiper Belt for a New Year's Day mission. The probe will explore a Kuiper Belt object (KBO) called Ultima Thule on Jan. 1, 2019.

Most Primitive World Ever Observed By Spacecraft

The Ultima Thule, officially called the 2014 MU69, is located a billion miles beyond dwarf planet Pluto and about 4 billion miles away from Earth.

It is an ancient KBO, which formed where it orbits now. Astronomers hope that it could provide insights into the early life of the sun and the planets of the solar system.

The U.S. space agency said that the object will be the most primitive world ever observed by a spacecraft. The mission will be the farthest planetary encounter in history.

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[Crutchez_CuiBono]

1. Omg

That's a hell of a picture. Thule? That's kinda creepy though.

[Stand and Fight]

2. Artistic rendition.

[Crutchez_CuiBono]

3. Hmm

Just reminded me of Nazi Thuleist Society.