{"id":76976,"date":"2018-03-17T12:02:52","date_gmt":"2018-03-17T19:02:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/new-horizons-next-target-nicknamed-ultima-thule"},"modified":"2018-03-17T12:02:52","modified_gmt":"2018-03-17T19:02:52","slug":"new-horizons-next-target-nicknamed-ultima-thule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/new-horizons-next-target-nicknamed-ultima-thule","title":{"rendered":"New Horizons\u2019 next target nicknamed Ultima Thule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-horizons-next-target-nicknamed-ultima-thule.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Following a public naming campaign that drew 115,000 participants, NASA\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission_pages\/newhorizons\/main\/index.html\"><strong><em>New Horizons<\/em><\/strong><\/a> team has selected the name <a href=\"http:\/\/pluto.jhuapl.edu\/News-Center\/News-Article.php?page=20180313\"><strong><em>Ultima Thule<\/em><\/strong><\/a> for the spacecraft\u2019s second target, Kuiper Belt Object (KBO) 2014 MU69, which the probe is scheduled to fly past on New Year\u2019s Day 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Pronounced <em>ultima thoolee<\/em>, this name was nominated by more than 40 participants in the campaign, which ran from early November through December 6 of last year.<\/p>\n<p>Initially scheduled to end on December 1, the project was extended five days due to high levels of participation.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spaceflightinsider.com\/missions\/solar-system\/new-horizons-next-target-nicknamed-ultima-thule\/\">http:\/\/www.spaceflightinsider.com\/missions\/solar-system\/new-...ima-thule\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following a public naming campaign that drew 115,000 participants, NASA\u2019s New Horizons team has selected the name Ultima Thule for the spacecraft\u2019s second target, Kuiper Belt Object (KBO) 2014 MU69, which the probe is scheduled to fly past on New Year\u2019s Day 2019. Pronounced ultima thoolee, this name was nominated by more than 40 participants [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76976","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=76976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76976\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}