Ultima Thule is an asteroid that only in 2014, is discovered. He is about thirty kilometers in diameter. The rock stands at about 6.6 billion kilometers from the earth in the so-called Kuipergordel. That is a zone full of ruimterotsen beyond the planet Neptune. The belt is named after the Dutch astronomer Gerard Kuiper. Never is an object at such a long distance of close to examined.
also Read New Horizons shaves next week along remote celestial object, and that can make us learn more about arise solar systemTuesday morning at 6.33 pm (Belgian time), the New Horizons closest to Ultima Thule. The distance to the asteroid is about 3,500 kilometres. But the confirmation that everything went well, only six hours later on earth.
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