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Artist’s impression of New Horizons encountering a Pluto-like object in the distant Kuiper Belt.
Image credit: NASA / JHUAPL / SwRI / Alex Parker.

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Link to NASA's New Horizons page:

https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/newhorizons/main/index.html

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[InABunkerUnderSF]

MU69 orbits the Sun once every 293 years at a distance of more than 4 billion miles (6.5 billion km) from Earth.

When 2014 MU69 was where it currently is in its last orbit Isaac Newton was an old man in his 70s with just two years to live. Benjamin Franklin was 19. He's working in London as an assistant to a printer named John Watts. Unbeknownst to him, he's just lost his girl. He'll be OK.

Things happen slowly in the Kuiper Belt

[Henry Cavendish]

That thing is really moving