NASA / Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory / Southwest Research Institute
So I just realized that NASA's New Horizons spacecraft makes its closest approach to Kuiper Belt Object (KBO) 2014 MU69—also nicknamed Ultima Thule—exactly two months from today! New Horizons flies past the KBO at 9:33 PM, Pacific Standard Time, on December 31...or 12:33 AM, Eastern Standard Time, on January 1, 2019.
I hope all of you are having a safe and fun Halloween! No trick-or-treaters stopped by my house for candy tonight, fortunately. Of course, trick-or-treaters haven't been stopping by my house for over half a decade now... Thank you, snooty Los Angeles County neighborhood that I live in! That was a compliment.
ABOVE: The green line marks the path traveled by the New Horizons spacecraft as of 9:00 PM,
Pacific Daylight Time, on October 31, 2018. It is 4 billion miles from Earth. Click here to view the
official webpage showing where New Horizons is in space. (AU stands for Astronomical Units, in case you're wondering.)
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