{"id":102586,"date":"2020-02-20T14:22:49","date_gmt":"2020-02-20T22:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/the-new-horizons-spacecraft-just-revealed-secrets-of-the-most-distant-object-weve-ever-visited"},"modified":"2020-02-20T14:22:49","modified_gmt":"2020-02-20T22:22:49","slug":"the-new-horizons-spacecraft-just-revealed-secrets-of-the-most-distant-object-weve-ever-visited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/the-new-horizons-spacecraft-just-revealed-secrets-of-the-most-distant-object-weve-ever-visited","title":{"rendered":"The New Horizons spacecraft just revealed secrets of the most distant object we\u2019ve ever visited"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-new-horizons-spacecraft-just-revealed-secrets-of-the-most-distant-object-weve-ever-visited2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now, five years later, their gamble appears to have paid off. Not only did New Horizons achieve a next-to flawless flyby of Arrokoth, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.popsci.com\/nasa-mu69-new-horizons-success\/\">most distant object ever visited<\/a>, but buried in its gigabytes of data\u2014which have been trickling back to Earth ever since the New Year\u2019s Day 2019 rendezvous\u2014lies empirical evidence that strikes against a classic theory of how planets form. The New Horizons team published their latest analysis of the ancient body and how it came to be in a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/science.sciencemag.org\/content\/early\/2020\/02\/12\/science.aay3999\">trio of papers<\/a> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/science.sciencemag.org\/content\/early\/2020\/02\/12\/science.aay3705\">appearing in <i>Science<\/i><\/a> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/science.sciencemag.org\/content\/early\/2020\/02\/12\/science.aay6620\">last week<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now, five years later, their gamble appears to have paid off. Not only did New Horizons achieve a next-to flawless flyby of Arrokoth, the most distant object ever visited, but buried in its gigabytes of data\u2014which have been trickling back to Earth ever since the New Year\u2019s Day 2019 rendezvous\u2014lies empirical evidence that strikes against [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102586\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}