{"id":88802,"date":"2019-03-20T07:42:58","date_gmt":"2019-03-20T14:42:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/new-horizons-team-shares-amazing-new-details-about-kuiper-belt-object-mu69"},"modified":"2019-03-20T07:42:58","modified_gmt":"2019-03-20T14:42:58","slug":"new-horizons-team-shares-amazing-new-details-about-kuiper-belt-object-mu69","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/new-horizons-team-shares-amazing-new-details-about-kuiper-belt-object-mu69","title":{"rendered":"New Horizons Team Shares Amazing New Details About Kuiper Belt Object MU69"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-horizons-team-shares-amazing-new-details-about-kuiper-belt-object-mu693.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists with the New Horizons mission gathered together in Texas yesterday to discuss the latest findings about MU69. This distant Kuiper Belt object\u2014which bears a striking resemblance to a flattened snowman\u2014is turning out to be even weirder than we imagined.<\/p>\n<p>After NASA\u2019s New Horizons zipped past Pluto on July 14, 2015, mission planners sent the spacecraft on a trajectory towards 2014 MU69, a distant trans-Neptunian object (TNO). Aside from its location in the Kuiper Belt and a distinctly reddish hue, virtually nothing was known about the object, which was first spotted by the Hubble Space Telescope just five years ago.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/new-horizons-team-shares-amazing-new-details-about-kuip-1833411073\">https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/new-horizons-team-shares-amazing-new-det...1833411073<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists with the New Horizons mission gathered together in Texas yesterday to discuss the latest findings about MU69. This distant Kuiper Belt object\u2014which bears a striking resemblance to a flattened snowman\u2014is turning out to be even weirder than we imagined. After NASA\u2019s New Horizons zipped past Pluto on July 14, 2015, mission planners sent the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88802","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=88802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88802\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}