Great Expectations: Plans and Predictions for New Horizons Encounter With Kuiper Belt Object 2014 MU 69 (“Ultima Thule”)
The New Horizons encounter with the cold classical Kuiper Belt object 2014 MU69 (informally named “Ultima Thule,” hereafter Ultima) on 1 January 2019 will be the first time a spacecraft has ever closely observed one of the free-orbiting small denizens of the Kuiper Belt. Related to but not thought t...
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American Geophysical Union (AGU)
2020
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| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/124493 |