{"id":86269,"date":"2018-12-31T00:02:27","date_gmt":"2018-12-31T08:02:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/our-new-horizons-spacecraft-is-making-its-final-approach-to-ultimathule-an-icy-object-located-1-billion-miles-past-pluto"},"modified":"2018-12-31T00:02:27","modified_gmt":"2018-12-31T08:02:27","slug":"our-new-horizons-spacecraft-is-making-its-final-approach-to-ultimathule-an-icy-object-located-1-billion-miles-past-pluto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/our-new-horizons-spacecraft-is-making-its-final-approach-to-ultimathule-an-icy-object-located-1-billion-miles-past-pluto","title":{"rendered":"Our New Horizons spacecraft is making its final approach to #UltimaThule, an icy object located ~1 billion miles past Pluto!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/our-new-horizons-spacecraft-is-making-its-final-approach-to-ultimathule-an-icy-object-located-1-billion-miles-past-pluto2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Our <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/new.horizons1\/?fref=mentions&__xts__%5B0%5D=68.ARAXFYSIqtZJgzBN30FDuHZNhaLE7GVD4gRrE_gjR0r8P5oXQ275L9IzrL_NwhkZdB4N02mu-xL3dSabzQpzMGwvEpFP-S0Ic-sNTM0Rg9j0WNfjNa1k2JO_2J-IgyD0VUz42Wj4wnQwPeyr2po_v3qg4jx0XSoHuiR-RAtw0c3VasR_o-9GLqbY_voALwntu2OPyzGeu3foD3oqMGWR8NeJUOXafFflRG9l71NS5O8LJ6P5U1qwOSk1cTzzL0FQelHsGpEOksIZ1XPDoo7QieG_dASJTKdT2dbGCo8rO7hQ53aI5V7Hh7X680zsj1lmJyGEeL1WsC0JTNSHeg&__tn__=K-R\">New Horizons<\/a> spacecraft is making its final approach to <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hashtag\/ultimathule?source=feed_text&epa=HASHTAG&__xts__%5B0%5D=68.ARAXFYSIqtZJgzBN30FDuHZNhaLE7GVD4gRrE_gjR0r8P5oXQ275L9IzrL_NwhkZdB4N02mu-xL3dSabzQpzMGwvEpFP-S0Ic-sNTM0Rg9j0WNfjNa1k2JO_2J-IgyD0VUz42Wj4wnQwPeyr2po_v3qg4jx0XSoHuiR-RAtw0c3VasR_o-9GLqbY_voALwntu2OPyzGeu3foD3oqMGWR8NeJUOXafFflRG9l71NS5O8LJ6P5U1qwOSk1cTzzL0FQelHsGpEOksIZ1XPDoo7QieG_dASJTKdT2dbGCo8rO7hQ53aI5V7Hh7X680zsj1lmJyGEeL1WsC0JTNSHeg&__tn__=%2ANK-R\" data-ft=\"{\u201d type\u201d:104,\u201d tn\u201d:\u201d*N\u201d}\"> #UltimaThule<\/a>, an icy object located ~1 billion miles past Pluto! Get the latest updates and find out where and when to watch the most distant planetary flyby ever this <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hashtag\/newyearseve?source=feed_text&epa=HASHTAG&__xts__%5B0%5D=68.ARAXFYSIqtZJgzBN30FDuHZNhaLE7GVD4gRrE_gjR0r8P5oXQ275L9IzrL_NwhkZdB4N02mu-xL3dSabzQpzMGwvEpFP-S0Ic-sNTM0Rg9j0WNfjNa1k2JO_2J-IgyD0VUz42Wj4wnQwPeyr2po_v3qg4jx0XSoHuiR-RAtw0c3VasR_o-9GLqbY_voALwntu2OPyzGeu3foD3oqMGWR8NeJUOXafFflRG9l71NS5O8LJ6P5U1qwOSk1cTzzL0FQelHsGpEOksIZ1XPDoo7QieG_dASJTKdT2dbGCo8rO7hQ53aI5V7Hh7X680zsj1lmJyGEeL1WsC0JTNSHeg&__tn__=%2ANK-R\" data-ft=\"{\u201d type\u201d:104,\u201d tn\u201d:\u201d*N\u201d}\"> #NewYearsEve<\/a> : <a href=\"http:\/\/pluto.jhuapl.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-ft=\"{\u201d tn\u201d:\u201d-U\u201d}\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-lynx-mode=\"async\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pluto.jhuapl.edu\/\">http:\/\/pluto.jhuapl.edu\/<\/a><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NASA\/photos\/a.67899501771\/10156813290356772\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NASA\/photos\/a.67899501771\/10156813290356772<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our New Horizons spacecraft is making its final approach to #UltimaThule, an icy object located ~1 billion miles past Pluto! Get the latest updates and find out where and when to watch the most distant planetary flyby ever this #NewYearsEve : http:\/\/pluto.jhuapl.edu\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":466,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86269","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\/466"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86269\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}