Showing posts with label HZ84. Show all posts
Showing posts with label HZ84. Show all posts
Friday, February 9, 2018
First images of Kuiper Belt objects taken by New Horizons
New Horizons spacecraft, which made a flyby of Pluto in July 2015, took images of two Kuiper Belt objects, the farthest images from Earth ever captured by a spacecraft.
These are falso-color images of 2012 HZ84 and 2012 HE85 are the closest-ever pictures of Kuiper Belt objects.
New Horizons is the fifth spacecraft to travel beyond the solar system at about 700,000 miles a day. It made a course correction back in December to set it on its way to visit dwarf planet MU69 on January 1, 2019.
Labels:
dwarf planet,
flyby,
HE85,
HZ84,
Kuiper Belt Object,
MU69,
New Horizons,
Pluto
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