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Happy New Year! The New Horizons flyby was successful!

Posted: 01 Jan 2019 09:27 AM PST
http://www.planetary.org/blogs/emily...y-success.html

New Horizons has "phoned home" as expected, 4 hours after its closest
approach to 2014 MU69. Its brief transmission contained no science data,
but gave the scientists welcome news: New Horizons has successfully pulled
off the most distant flyby ever.

Very exciting. The pre-encounter images indicate that it is rotating,
so that will hopefully provide for images of more than just one side of
2014 MU69.

The only downside is that it's going to take many months to download all
of the data from the encounter. I think I saw an estimate somewhere
else of 10 months.

Jeff
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