New Horizons' rendezvous with Ultima Thule went off without a hitch, NASA says

It’s official.

Four billion miles from Earth, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft successfully sped past a small, cold Kuiper Belt object known as Ultima Thule Monday night, busily collecting data on the most distant world ever visited by humankind.

https://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-new-horizons-flyby-20190101-story.html

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