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Three potentially targetable Kuiper belt object for New Horizons

Three potentially targetable Kuiper belt object for New Horizons
Three potentially targetable Kuiper belt object for New Horizons From June to August 2014, the Hubble Space telescope searched a region of the sky to find small Kuiper belt objects that New Horizons could reach after its Pluto encounter. The search yielded five objects, and Hubble performed followup observations from August to October. Those observations ruled out two, but confirmed that one in particular is 100% certain to be reachable by New Horizons. NASA / JHUAPL / SwRI