Small Kuiper Belt Objects (KBOs) are Surprisingly Rare!
The Kuiper Belt is a donut-shaped region of icy bodies beyond the orbit of Neptune. Until the 2015 flyby of the dwarf planet Pluto and its largest satellite Charon by […]
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New Horizons at Ultima Thule
Very early on New Year’s Day 2019, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft encountered its second major mission target — a Kuiper Belt object nicknamed Ultima Thule, after a classical and medieval […]
NASA’s Hubble Telescope Finds Potential Kuiper Belt Targets for New Horizons Pluto Mission
Peering out to the dim, outer reaches of our solar system, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has uncovered three Kuiper Belt objects (KBOs) the agency’s New Horizons spacecraft could potentially visit […]