With NASA'S New Horizons spacecraft scheduled to pass Pluto next year, the space agency has announced the discovery of three Kuiper Belt objects (KBO); one of which may be the unmanned probe’s next destination. Located in the constellation of Sagittarius, the primordial asteroids were found after a detailed survey using the Hubble Space Telescope... Continue Reading Hubble identifies Kuiper Belt targets for New Horizons mission
Section: Space
Tags: Hubble, Kuiper Belt, NASA, New Horizons, Solar System, Space telescope, Spacecraft
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