Showing posts with label KBO. Show all posts
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Tuesday, December 08, 2015

90-Mile-Wide Object Spotted In Outer Solar System | VIDEO

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90-Mile-Wide Object Spotted In Outer Solar System

By Space.com
12-7-15

    On Nov. 2nd, 2015, NASA’s New Horizons' Pluto probe captured imagery of Kuiper Belt Object (KBO) 1994 JR1 in orbit 3.3 billion miles from the sun. New Horizons' Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) captured four frames each one hour apart from a distance of 170 million miles. [...]