2014 MU69 (Ultima Thule) as single object, illustration. This astronomical body is the most distant object visited by human spacecraft, with the flyby of NASA's New Horizons spacecraft taking place on 1 January 2019. Before the flyby, it was thought that this Kuiper Belt Object (KBO) was either a contact binary or the single object shown here. It was found to be a contact binary with the two joined bodies 19 and 14 kilometres across respectively (see image C042/6431). For the first images of MU69, see C042/6428. | |
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