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    2014 MU69 revealed as a contact binary in first New Horizons data returns

    by Chris Gebhardt January 2, 2019
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    It’s a contact binary, two different spherical rocks permanently touching each other and bound together by each other’s gravity.  And that’s just the tip of the proverbial iceberg when it comes to 2014 MU69, the small little red world in the center of the Kuiper Belt that NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft flew by for close-range exploration less than two days ago.

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    New Horizons comes out of hibernation ahead of January MU69 flyby

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    Year In Review 2017 (Part 4): One year to New Horizons’ flyby of MU69

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    As science teams and researchers spent 2017 pouring through the wealth of data returned by…

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    New Horizons conducts flyby of Pluto in historic Kuiper Belt encounter

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    Hubble recruited to find New Horizons probe post-Pluto target

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