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New Horizons is an interplanetary space probe launched as a part of NASA's New Frontiers program. [5] ... Asteroid 132524 APL viewed by New Horizons in June 2006.
Before 486958 Arrokoth was discovered in 2014, Arawn was the best known target for a flyby by the New Horizons spacecraft after its Pluto flyby in 2015. [15] [16] Arawn was one of the first objects targeted for distant observations by New Horizons, which were taken on 2 November 2015. [17] More observations were made in April 2016. [7]
486958 Arrokoth (provisional designation 2014 MU 69; formerly nicknamed Ultima Thule [a]) is a trans-Neptunian object located in the Kuiper belt.Arrokoth became the farthest and most primitive object in the Solar System visited by a spacecraft when the NASA space probe New Horizons conducted a flyby on 1 January 2019.
132524 APL (provisional designation 2002 JF 56) is a small background asteroid in the intermediate asteroid belt.It was discovered by Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research in May 2002, [1] and imaged by the New Horizons space probe on its flyby in June 2006, when it was passing through the asteroid belt.
The orbits of New Horizons potential targets 1–3. 2014 OS 393 (PT2) is in red. 486958 Arrokoth (PT1) is in blue. 2014 PN 70 is in green.. 2014 OS 393 was discovered by the New Horizons Search Team with the help of the Hubble Space Telescope [11] because the object has a magnitude of 26.3, which is too faint to be observed by ground-based telescopes.
Flyby; [1] closest asteroid flyby, first asteroid visited by a Chinese probe. 1 Ceres: 939.4 1801 Dawn: 2015–2018: 35 0.07 First "close up" picture of Ceres taken in December 2014; probe entered orbit in March 2015; first dwarf planet visited by a spacecraft, largest asteroid visited by a spacecraft. 134340 Pluto: 2376.6 1930 New Horizons ...
2020 MK 53 is a trans-Neptunian object in the scattered disc, around 550 kilometres (340 miles) in diameter.It was discovered on 22 June 2020 by the New Horizons KBO Search-Subaru survey [5] [6] using the 8.2-meter Subaru Telescope of the Mauna Kea Observatories in Hawaii, and announced on 7 April 2023 (MPS 1836391, MPO 735634).
December 2, 2011: New Horizons draws closer to Pluto than any other spacecraft has ever been. Previously, Voyager 1 held the record for the closest approach. (~10.58 AU) [29] February 11, 2012: New Horizons reaches the distance of 10 AU from the Pluto system, at around 4:55 UTC. [30] July 1, 2013: New Horizons captures its first image of Charon ...