The #NewHorizons team has published their full analysis of #Arrokoth “Arrokoth is a fossil. It …

The #NewHorizons team has published their full analysis of #Arrokoth

“Arrokoth is a fossil. It has not changed for billions of years. It has been immaculately preserved, like an insect trapped in amber, in a cold, dim, stupendously serene realm of the solar system where nothing much happens, ever.”

“‘This is the best archaeological dig we’ve ever found into the history of the solar system,’ enthused Alan Stern, the scientific leader of the New Horizons team.”
#space

https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/new-horizons-images-of-arrokoth-show-building-blocks-for-planets/2020/02/13/3ba09220-4dba-11ea-b721-9f4cdc90bc1c_story.html

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I was just wondering about this the other day. New Horizons has taken its first images of its next target (after the amazing Pluto flyby a few years ago), Kuiper Belt Object 2014 MU69. It’ll reach the object in January.

I was just wondering about this the other day. New Horizons has taken its first images of its next target (after the amazing Pluto flyby a few years ago), Kuiper Belt Object 2014 MU69. It’ll reach the object in January.

https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/now-well-beyond-pluto-new-horizons-sees-its-next-target

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The cool stuff we can expect to learn as a result of the New…

http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/mysteries_of_the_universe/2014/02/pluto_new_horizons_mission_the_dwarf_planet_explains_the_history_of_our.html

The cool stuff we can expect to learn as a result of the New Horizons mission on its way to Pluto. Things like the early formation of our solar system.

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