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CEO Bill Diamond is joined by New Horizons Hazard team lead and SETI Institute Senior Scientist, Mark Showalter to discuss the spacecraft's flyby of Ultima Thule, what it's like working on the Hazards team, and even the naming of some of Pluto's surface features.

A taste of All Space Considered's January show where guests Dr. Konstantin Batygin and Dr. Alan Stern talked about the Kuiper Belt, MU-69 (or Ultima Thule) and New Horizons' most recent success. For the full videos, click the links below or the links at the end of the video. New Horizons and Dr. Alan Stern: https://youtu.be/r-_30xZXzK8 Kuiper Belt and Dr. Konstantin Batygin: https://youtu.be/GJU5OUYPnO0 Subscribe now for more All Space Considered clips: https://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=griffithobservatory All Space Considered is Griffith Observatory’s live science program that is free and open to the public, held the first Friday of every month. Watch All Space Considered videos: https://www.youtube.com/griffithobservatory Learn more about All Space Considered on our official site: http://griffithobservatory.org/asc/all_space.html Follow All Space Considered on SOCIAL MEDIA: Twitter: https://twitter.com/allspacecnsdrd Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AllSpaceConsidered/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/allspaceconsidered/ -Disclaimer- WE DO NOT OWN THE RIGHTS TO THE, VIDEOS, MUSICAL MATERIAL OR PICTURES PRESENT THAT WERE NOT CREATED DIRECTLY BY GRIFFITH OBSERVATORY OR ITS AFFILIATES, ALL CREDIT FOR THIS MATERIAL GOES TO THE ORIGINAL ARTISTS, CREATORS AND COMPOSERS. Fair Use: "Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use."

Dr. Konstantin Batygin of CalTech talks about Ultima Thule and shares his knowledge of the Kuiper Belt and what else lies far out in our Solar System. Subscribe now for more All Space Considered clips: https://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=griffithobservatory All Space Considered is Griffith Observatory’s live science program that is free and open to the public, held the first Friday of every month. Watch All Space Considered videos: https://www.youtube.com/griffithobservatory Learn more about All Space Considered on our official site: http://griffithobservatory.org/asc/all_space.html Follow All Space Considered on SOCIAL MEDIA: Twitter: https://twitter.com/allspacecnsdrd Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AllSpaceConsidered/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/allspaceconsidered/ -Disclaimer- WE DO NOT OWN THE RIGHTS TO THE, VIDEOS, MUSICAL MATERIAL OR PICTURES PRESENT THAT WERE NOT CREATED DIRECTLY BY GRIFFITH OBSERVATORY OR ITS AFFILIATES, ALL CREDIT FOR THIS MATERIAL GOES TO THE ORIGINAL ARTISTS, CREATORS AND COMPOSERS. Fair Use: "Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use."

Dr. Alan Stern calls in to All space Considered to talk about the New Horizons team's successful flyby of Ultima Thule, the farthest object ever visited by humans. Subscribe now for more All Space Considered clips: https://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=griffithobservatory All Space Considered is Griffith Observatory’s live science program that is free and open to the public, held the first Friday of every month. Watch All Space Considered videos: https://www.youtube.com/griffithobservatory Learn more about All Space Considered on our official site: http://griffithobservatory.org/asc/all_space.html Follow All Space Considered on SOCIAL MEDIA: Twitter: https://twitter.com/allspacecnsdrd Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AllSpaceConsidered/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/allspaceconsidered/ -Disclaimer- WE DO NOT OWN THE RIGHTS TO THE, VIDEOS, MUSICAL MATERIAL OR PICTURES PRESENT THAT WERE NOT CREATED DIRECTLY BY GRIFFITH OBSERVATORY OR ITS AFFILIATES, ALL CREDIT FOR THIS MATERIAL GOES TO THE ORIGINAL ARTISTS, CREATORS AND COMPOSERS. Fair Use: "Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use."

Ultima Thule was an amazing discovery. New Horizons had been was about 9/10 of its journey towards Pluto before it was discovered! No one on Earth even knew of its existence while they were building or launching the New Horizons probe, and what they found was simply amazing! you can support this channel directly through Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/Thunderf00t

From the home of the New Horizons Mission Operations Center, the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab: The New Horizons team shares the first clear images and newest science results from the Ultima Thule flyby (2 January 2019). Panelists include Alan Stern, New Horizons principal investigator, Southwest Research Institute; Cathy Olkin, New Horizons deputy project scientist, Southwest Research Institute; Carly Howett, New Horizons co-investigator, Southwest Research Institute; and Jeff Moore, New Horizons co-investigator, NASA Ames Research Center.

The New Horizons team shares the first image of Ultima Thule, as well as updates on spacecraft status and flyby success, from the Mission Operations Center at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab (January 1st, 2019). Panelists include Alan Stern, New Horizons principal investigator, Southwest Research Institute; Alice Bowman, New Horizons mission operations manager, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory; Hal Weaver, New Horizons project scientist, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory; Chris Hersman, New Horizons mission systems engineer, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory.

Space Fan News is Sponsored by OPT Telescopes and Patreon Patrons: https://bit.ly/2SwhmVB This year is starting with an astronomical bang because here it is only the fourth of January and already we’ve celebrated Osiris Rex orbiting the asteroid Bennu, the New Horizons flyby of the KBO called Ultima Thule and China has landed a rover on the far side of the moon! Watch SFN #213 Here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8U3djBaUjDc Consider supporting Space Fan News: https://patreon.com/DeepAstronomy to ensure you get current space & astronomy news each week! Space Fan News Theme by Stephen Dubois available for download here: http://ancienteyesmusic.com Follow DeepAstronomy on Twitter: @DeepAstronomy Like DeepAstronomy on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DeepAstronomy/ Like Space Fan News on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SpaceFanNews/

"Are we there yet?" JHUAPL Director Ralph Semmel speaks to the audience about the historic Ultima Thule flyby by the NASA New Horizons Spacecraft. All events from the New Year's Eve/New Year's Day flyby took place from the home of the New Horizons Mission Operations Center at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab in Laurel, Md.

APL's Michael Buckley speaks with John Spencer, deputy project scientist from the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) about the significance of the Ultima Thule flyby moment. Also witness the historic Ultima Thule flyby event as it took place in real time (on Earth) with principal investigator Dr. Alan Stern. All events from the New Year's Eve/New Year's Day flyby took place from the home of the New Horizons Mission Operations Center at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab in Laurel, Md.

The President of the Southwest Research Institute speaks to the audience and members of the press on New Year's Eve about the incredible achievements of New Horizons, and the significance of the Ultima Thule flyby. All events from the New Year's Eve/New Year's Day flyby took place from the home of the New Horizons Mission Operations Center at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab in Laurel, Md.

APL's Michael Buckley counts down the New Year to 2019 with Queen's Dr. Brian May, who not only worked as a member of the New Horizons team, but also wrote a song for New Horizons as only he can do it. See the countdown, watch the song, and see the interview between Mike and Dr. May as they discuss the future of space exploration. All events from the New Year's Eve/New Year's Day flyby took place from the home of the New Horizons Mission Operations Center at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab in Laurel, Md.

Ultima Thule is the most distant object to ever be explored - and it looks like a red snowman

Walter Alvarez Professor, Earth & Planetary Science, UC Berkeley, discusses the solar system and how the New Horizons flyby will help us better understand life, the universe, everything. All events from the New Year's Eve/New Year's Day flyby took place from the home of the New Horizons Mission Operations Center at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab in Laurel, Md.

New images of Ultima Thule, the small chunk of primordial debris NASA's New Horizons probe zoomed past on New Year's Day, came into much sharper focus Wednesday, revealing a snowman-shaped object made up of two smaller, roughly spherical bodies that gently collided and stuck together during the birth of the solar system 4.5 billion years ago. Watch to see the results from the flyby of Ultima Thule, an icy rock floating over four billion miles from the Earth. Pictures to be released and discussed by New Horizons mission managers. -- Subscribe to the CBS News Channel HERE: http://youtube.com/cbsnews Watch CBSN live HERE: http://cbsn.ws/1PlLpZ7 Follow CBS News on Instagram HERE: https://www.instagram.com/cbsnews/ Like CBS News on Facebook HERE: http://facebook.com/cbsnews Follow CBS News on Twitter HERE: http://twitter.com/cbsnews Get the latest news and best in original reporting from CBS News delivered to your inbox. Subscribe to newsletters HERE: http://cbsn.ws/1RqHw7T Get your news on the go! Download CBS News mobile apps HERE: http://cbsn.ws/1Xb1WC8 Get new episodes of shows you love across devices the next day, stream CBSN and local news live, and watch full seasons of CBS fan favorites like Star Trek Discovery anytime, anywhere with CBS All Access. Try it free! http://bit.ly/1OQA29B --- CBSN is the first digital streaming news network that will allow Internet-connected consumers to watch live, anchored news coverage on their connected TV and other devices. At launch, the network is available 24/7 and makes all of the resources of CBS News available directly on digital platforms with live, anchored coverage 15 hours each weekday. CBSN. Always On.

The first sharp picture of the "city-sized world" the New Horizons probe travelled 6.5 billion kilometres to explore has been unveiled, to the delight of NASA. Read more here: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-01-03/new-horizons-picture-ultima-thule-looks-like-snowman-nasa-says/10680874 For more from ABC News, click here: http://www.abc.net.au/news/ Subscribe to us on YouTube: http://ab.co/1svxLVE You can also like us on Facebook: http://facebook.com/abcnews.au Or follow us on Instagram: http://instagram.com/abcnews_au Or even on Twitter: http://twitter.com/abcnews

From the home of the New Horizons Mission Operations Center, the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab: The New Horizons team shares the first clear images and science results from the Ultima Thule flyby. Panelists include Alan Stern, New Horizons principal investigator, Southwest Research Institute; Cathy Olkin, New Horizons deputy project scientist, Southwest Research Institute; Carly Howett, New Horizons co-investigator, Southwest Research Institute; and Jeff Moore, New Horizons co-investigator, NASA Ames Research Center.

The New Horizons team has created a color image of Ultima Thule using imagery and data from the spacecraft. -- Read more: https://www.space.com/42878-ultima-thule-new-horizons-first-color-photo.html Credit: NASA

NASA New Horizons principal investigator Alan Stern reveals the first clearer image of Ultima Thule. -- Read more: https://www.space.com/42878-ultima-thule-new-horizons-first-color-photo.html Credit: NASA

NASA says it will release new images Wednesday of Ultima Thule, the most distant object ever explored by humans, taken by the New Horizons spacecraft. Scientists believe the icy world, more than a billion miles beyond Pluto, will reveal clues about the origins of the solar system. Mark Strassmann reports. Watch "CBS This Morning" HERE: http://bit.ly/1T88yAR Download the CBS News app on iOS HERE: https://apple.co/1tRNnUy Download the CBS News app on Android HERE: https://bit.ly/1IcphuX Like "CBS This Morning" on Facebook HERE: http://on.fb.me/1LhtdvI Follow "CBS This Morning" on Twitter HERE: http://bit.ly/1Xj5W3p Follow "CBS This Morning" on Instagram HERE: http://bit.ly/1Q7NGnY Get new episodes of shows you love across devices the next day, stream local news live, and watch full seasons of CBS fan favorites anytime, anywhere with CBS All Access. Try it free! http://bit.ly/1OQA29B Delivered by Norah O’Donnell, Gayle King, John Dickerson, and Bianna Golodryga, "CBS This Morning" offers a thoughtful, substantive and insightful source of news and information to a daily audience of 3 million viewers. The Emmy Award-winning broadcast presents a mix of daily news, coverage of developing stories of national and global significance, and interviews with leading figures in politics, business and entertainment. Check local listings for "CBS This Morning" broadcast times.

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft made a successful flyby of the tiny, icy celestial object known as Ultima Thule, 6.5 billion kilometres from Earth, and the work of Canadian researchers was critical to the historic mission. Welcome to The National, the flagship nightly newscast of CBC News »»» Subscribe to The National to watch more videos here: https://www.youtube.com/user/CBCTheNational?sub_confirmation=1 Voice Your Opinion & Connect With Us Online: The National Updates on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thenational The National Updates on Twitter: https://twitter.com/CBCTheNational »»» »»» »»» »»» »»» The National is CBC Television's flagship news program. Airing six days a week, the show delivers news, feature documentaries and analysis from some of Canada's leading journalists.

Images of Ultima Thule, the most distant object ever reached, have NASA scientists geeking out. CNN's Jeanne Moos reports that Queen guitarist Brian May dedicated a song to the New Horizons mission. #CNN #News

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The New Horizons team shares the first image of Ultima Thule, as well as updates on spacecraft status and flyby success, from the Mission Operations Center at Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab. Panelists include Alan Stern, New Horizons principal investigator, Southwest Research Institute; Alice Bowman, New Horizons mission operations manager, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory; Hal Weaver, New Horizons project scientist, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory; Chris Hersman, New Horizons mission systems engineer, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory.

Jubilant NASA scientists were celebrating this morning celebrating after confirmation their New Horizons has reached the solar system's outermost region, flying close to a space rock 20 miles long and billions of miles from Earth on a mission to gather clues about the creation of the solar system. The New Horizons probe was slated to reach the 'third zone' in the uncharted heart of the Kuiper Belt at 12:33 a.m. Eastern - but NASA did not receive confirmation it was a success until 10:31am this morning, leading to cheers and shouts in Mission Control. Alice Bowman, the New Horizons Mission Operations Manager, known as 'MOM' received the updates from mission engineers.  Original Article: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-6544801/NASA-scientists-wait-confirmation-New-Horizons-completed-record-breaking-New-Years-Eve-flyby.html Original Video: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/video/news/video-1833174/Video-NASA-scientists-cheer-New-Horizons-approaches-Ultima-Thule.html Daily Mail Facebook: http://facebook.com/dailymail Daily Mail IG: http://instagram.com/dailymail Daily Mail Snap: https://www.snapchat.com/discover/Daily-Mail/8392137033 Daily Mail Twitter: http://twitter.com/MailOnline Daily Mail Pinterest: http://pinterest.co.uk/dailymail Daily Mail Google+: https://plus.google.com/+DailyMail Get the free Daily Mail mobile app: http://dailymail.co.uk/mobile

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The New Horizons team shares the first image of Ultima Thule, as well as updates on spacecraft status and flyby success, from the Mission Operations Center at Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab.

NASA explorer New Horizons has traveled four billion miles from Earth and sent back the first blurry picture (image main taken on the spacecraft's approach) of Ultima Thule, an ancient icy object in the Kuiper Belt. New Horizons (bottom left) passed Ultima at 12:33 a.m. this morning. Clearer pictures are not expected for hours given the vast distance (bottom right the spacecraft's path). The ancient target nicknamed Ultima Thule is 4 billion miles (6.4 billion kilometers) from Earth. Original Article: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6543963/NASA-rings-new-year-historic-flyby-Ultima-Thule.html Original Video: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/video/sciencetech/video-1833026/Video-New-Horizons-launches-NYE-explore-Ultima-Thule.html Daily Mail Facebook: http://facebook.com/dailymail Daily Mail IG: http://instagram.com/dailymail Daily Mail Snap: https://www.snapchat.com/discover/Daily-Mail/8392137033 Daily Mail Twitter: http://twitter.com/MailOnline Daily Mail Pinterest: http://pinterest.co.uk/dailymail Daily Mail Google+: https://plus.google.com/+DailyMail Get the free Daily Mail mobile app: http://dailymail.co.uk/mobile

The American space agency is waiting on a signal from its New Horizons probe to confirm that it has made a successful flyby of Ultima Thule. The craft should have hurtled by the 30km-wide icy object earlier on Tuesday, acquiring a swathe of pictures and other scientific measurements. At 6.5 billion km from Earth, the encounter is the most distant ever exploration of a Solar System body.

Join us for a 24 hour New Years Eve webcast hosted by Launch Pad Astronomy and Deep Astronomy. We're covering New Horizons closest approach to Ultima Thule - a space rock at the very edges of our solar system. Guest appearances include Alan Stern (Principal Investigator of the New Horizons mission), Emily Lakdawalla (Planetary Society) and members of the TMRO crew! Time of closest approach: 05:33 UTC 1/1 12:33 EST 1/1 21:33 PST 12/31 If you would like to keep chatting with the community of TMRO: - Create a new post on our community forum at https://community.tmro.tv - Head over to our real-time Discord channel here: https://discord.gg/9NkkFWD

NASA's New Horizons has reached the solar system's outermost region for a flyby of Ultima Thule, a 30km wide rock located in the Kuiper belt 6.5 billion km from Earth. Astronomer Francisco Diego tells us more about this most distant close encounter of its kind.

Join us for a 24 hour New Years Eve webcast hosted by Launch Pad Astronomy and Deep Astronomy. We're covering New Horizons closest approach to Ultima Thule - a space rock at the very edges of our solar system. Guest appearances include Alan Stern (Principal Investigator of the New Horizons mission), Emily Lakdawalla (Planetary Society) and members of the TMRO crew! Time of closest approach: 05:33 UTC 1/1 12:33 EST 1/1 21:33 PST 12/31 If you would like to keep chatting with the community of TMRO: - Create a new post on our community forum at https://community.tmro.tv - Head over to our real-time Discord channel here: https://discord.gg/9NkkFWD

Panel discussion on exploration of small worlds (8-9 pm); Ultima Thule flyby countdown events; mission updates. Coverage of the farthest object ever explored by a spacecraft in history.

Panel discussion on exploration of small worlds (8-9 pm); Ultima Thule flyby countdown events; mission updates

Welcome remarks from the team and New Horizons mission updates.

Less than a day to go before New Horizons flys close to a tiny object discovered on the edge of our solar system. This body wasn't discovered until a few years ago, and yet it also represents one of the most ancient, unevolved bodies in the solar system. For more information on the discovery of Ultima Thule I suggest looking at Alex Parker's summary of events on Twitter https://twitter.com/Alex_Parker/status/1077986070128668674

On New Year's 2019, I'm going to be part of a livestream for the New Horizons flyby of Ultima Thule, a Kuiper belt object (2014 MU69) that is a billion kilometers beyond Pluto!! This will be a 24-hour livestream Super Collab hosted by Christian Ready from Launchpad Astronomy, Tony Darnell from Deep Astronomy, and TMRO ★ Launchpad Astronomy - https://www.youtube.com/ChristianReady ★ Deep Astronomy - https://www.youtube.com/deepastronomy ★ TMRO - http://youtube.com/tmro Christian Ready will be at mission control at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory. We're going to talk with people from the New Horizons mission at APL and some of your favorite Space Nerds. Watch announcement video on Launchpad Astronomy Here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iNCM... SpaceMike is producing short space themed news videos focused on human transportation. To support the show please visit https://www.patreon.com/spacemike #UltimaLive #UltimaFlyby #UltimaThule

Alan Stern, principal investigator for NASA's New Horizons mission to Pluto and the Kuiper Belt, discusses the flyby of a far-out icy world known as Ultima Thule during a Dec. 30 briefing at Johns Hopkins University's Applied Physics Laboratory. (GeekWire Video / Alan Boyle)

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On January 1, 2019, Ultima Thule, and object in the Kuiper Belt four billion miles from Earth, will be the most ancient and most distant world ever explored close up. Ultima is expected to offer discoveries about the origin and evolution of our solar system. "Summiting" goes behind the scenes of the most ambitious occultation campaigns ever mounted, as scientists deployed telescopes to Senegal and Colombia in 2018, and Argentina, South Africa and New Zealand in 2017, to glimpse Ultima as it passed in front of a star, and gathered data on the object's size and orbit that has been essential to planning the flyby. Mission scientists recall the astonishing scientific success of flying through the Pluto system in 2015, and use comparative planetology to show how Earth and Pluto are both amazingly different and—with glaciers, tall mountains, volcanoes and blue skies—awesomely similar. Appealing to space junkies and adrenaline junkies alike, "Summiting" brings viewers along for the ride of a lifetime as New Horizons pushes past Pluto and braves an even more hazardous unknown. More on the New Horizons mission: pluto.jhuapl.edu Credit: Geoff Haines Stiles of Geoff Haines Stiles Productions (GHSPi)

Summiting the Solar System is a story of exploration at its most ambitious and extreme. On January 1, 2019, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft flies by a small Kuiper Belt Object known scientifically as 2014 MU69, but nicknamed "Ultima Thule." Ultima is four billion miles from Earth, and will be the most ancient and most distant world ever explored close up. It is expected to offer discoveries about the origin and evolution of our solar system. Chosen by the team and the public, the nickname honors the mythical land beyond the edges of the known world. But "Summiting" is much more than the story of a sophisticated, plutonium-fueled robotic spacecraft exploring far from the Sun. The New Horizons mission is powered as much by the passions of a small team of humans—men and women, scientists and engineers—for whom pushing the frontiers of the known, climbing the very peaks of the possible, has been the dream of many decades. More on the New Horizons mission: pluto.jhuapl.edu Credit: Geoff Haines Stiles of Geoff Haines Stiles Productions (GHSPi)

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The New Horizons team provides the latest updates on the historic flyby of Ultima Thule, the farthest exploration of any world, ever. (Dec 28 2018) New Horizons Team Members Principal Investigator Alan Stern - Southwest Research Institute Mission Operations Manager Alice Bowman - Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab Science Team Co-Investigator Kelsi Singer - Southwest Research Institute Moderator Mike Buckley - Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab Mission Page: http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/

The US space agency's New Horizon's spacecraft will soon make the most distant flyby of a cosmic object ever, zipping by an object called Ultima Thule -- a billion miles (1.6 billion kilometers) beyond Pluto, on January 1.VIDEOGRAPHIC

NASA's unmanned New Horizons spacecraft, now zooming into outer space beyond Pluto, will fly by a small space rock known as Ultima Thule on New Year's Day. The flyby will "provide NASA researchers with valuable images and science data of a world we know practically nothing about," according to CNet. If successful, it will be the most distant flyby in human history, at about 4 billion miles from Earth. "New Horizons will map Ultima, determine how many moons it has and find out if it has rings or even an atmosphere, " said the mission's principal investigator Alan Stern of the Southwest Research Institute. "It will make other studies, too, such as measuring Ultima's temperature and perhaps even its mass. In the space of one 72-hour period, Ultima will be transformed from a pinpoint of light – a dot in the distance – to a fully explored world. It should be breathtaking!" Stern said. With the inelegant official name of "2014 MU69," Ultima Thule was first discovered in 2014 by astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope. Scientists believe it's an ancient relic of the formation of our solar system, the Planetary Society said. For more on this story: https://bit.ly/2BGXqYK Do you like what you see? Subscribe to our YouTube channel: http://bit.ly/1xa3XAh Like USA TODAY on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/usatoday Follow USA TODAY on Twitter: https://twitter.com/USATODAY

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On New Year's 2019, we're going to livestream the New Horizons flyby of Ultima Thule, a Kuiper belt object (2014 MU69) that is a billion kilometers beyond Pluto!! We're going to be live at mission control at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory. We're going to talk with people from the New Horizons mission at APL and online during my first-ever remote livestream. I'm partnering with Tony Darnell from Deep Astronomy and TMRO to bring this to you live for 24 hours. ★ Deep Astronomy - https://www.youtube.com/deepastronomy ★ TMRO - http://youtube.com/tmro So far, our guests include: ★ Alan Stern - Principal Investigator, New Horizons ★ Sean Carroll - Theoretical Cosmologist, host Mindscape podcast ★ Athena Brensberger - Astroathens ★ Fraser Cain - Publisher, Universe Today ★ SpaceMike Clark - Epic Future Space ★ John Michael Godier - Author, futurist, host Event Horizon ★ Heidi B. Hammel - Planetary Scientist, New Horizons ★ Emily Lakdawalla - the Planetary Society ★ Scott Manley - Astronogamer, DJ, Scotsman 🔔 Subscribe for more: https://www.youtube.com/christianready?sub_confirmation=1 How you can support the livestream (and this channel) 🚀 Become my patron https://patreon.com/launchpadastro 🚀 Check out Launch Pad merchandise! https://teespring.com/stores/launchpadastro Disclaimer: Some of these links go to one of my websites and some are affiliate links where I'll earn a small commission if you make a purchase at no additional cost to you. → Share this video with a fellow space traveler: https://youtu.be/8h_QZN6bxrc 🔴 Watch my most recent upload: https://youtu.be/1nVOnX2eABw ✅ Let's connect: For business inquiries - chris AT christianready DOT com Twitter - @launchpadastro Instagram - @launchpadastro Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/LaunchPadAstronomy/ Discord - https://discord.gg/yChAuUe

According to a report by Gizmodo, NASA's New Horizons probe has detected something strange about its distant target Ultima Thule as it gets ready for a fly-by on New Years Day. The oddly shaped object has negligible light curves, something that is unusual in a rotating object whose surface should reflect incoming light from the Sun. Gizmodo reports that New Horizons will whiz past Ultima Thule at 12:33 Eastern Time on the first day of 2019 at speeds in excess of 31,500 miles per hour. https://gizmodo.com/days-before-ultima-thule-flyby-new-horizons-has-detect-1831255434 http://www.wochit.com This video was produced by YT Wochit News using http://wochit.com

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