NASA seeks Kuiper Belt Objects for New Horizon's post-Pluto mission
Thursday, May 8, 2014 - 08:20
in Astronomy & Space
Are you ready for the summer of 2015? A showdown of epic proportions is in the making, as NASA's New Horizons spacecraft is set to pass within 12,500 kilometres of Pluto—roughly a third of the distance of the ring of geosynchronous satellites orbiting the Earth— a little over a year from now on July 14th, 2015.