NEW HORIZONS IS AWAKE
Hey Space Placers! The New Horizons spacecraft is alive, well and AWAKE after an extended hibernation period . The plucky Pluto explorer is in the process of preparing for its 1/1/19 flyby of ULTIMA THULE , a Kuiper Belt Object called 2014 MU 69. Artist ' s impression of NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft encountering 2014 MU69, a Kuiper Belt object that orbits one billion miles (1.6 billion kilometers) beyond Pluto, on Jan. 1, 2019. Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Retute/Steve Gribbe This will be something to see...... Sky Guy in VA