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The Kuiper Belt object (known as 2014 MU69, 4.1 billion miles from Earth)
passes in front of a star and winks it out |
Check out this
article about the next target for the New Horizons spacecraft. One of the team members that went to Argentina to capture the occultation (when one object passes in front of another - in this case, the Kuiper Belt object in front of a star) was Steve Conard, the lead engineer that built and tested the
LORRI camera on New Horizons at APL in Laurel, Maryland. Steve is a member of the
Westminster Astronomical Society, whom I met when I joined WASI back last year.
Complete article at
NASA.
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