{"id":90813,"date":"2019-05-16T21:02:22","date_gmt":"2019-05-17T04:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/new-horizons-far-out-findings-from-solar-systems-kuiper-belt-turn-into-a-cover-story"},"modified":"2019-05-16T21:02:22","modified_gmt":"2019-05-17T04:02:22","slug":"new-horizons-far-out-findings-from-solar-systems-kuiper-belt-turn-into-a-cover-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/new-horizons-far-out-findings-from-solar-systems-kuiper-belt-turn-into-a-cover-story","title":{"rendered":"New Horizons\u2019 far-out findings from solar system\u2019s Kuiper Belt turn into a cover story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-horizons-far-out-findings-from-solar-systems-kuiper-belt-turn-into-a-cover-story2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The space snowman known as 2014 MU69 or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.geekwire.com\/tag\/ultima-thule\/\">Ultima Thule<\/a> added to its celebrity today by showing up on the cover of the journal Science, with the <a href=\"https:\/\/science.sciencemag.org\/content\/364\/6441\/eaaw9771\">first peer-reviewed results<\/a> from an encounter with <a href=\"http:\/\/pluto.jhuapl.edu\/\">NASA\u2019s New Horizons spacecraft<\/a> laid out within.<\/p>\n<p>Close study of the two-lobed object \u2014 which orbits 4 billion miles from the sun within a sparse belt of icy material known as the Kuiper Belt \u2014 could shed light on how the solar system was formed, said New Horizons principal investigator Alan Stern, a planetary scientist at the Southwest Research Institute.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re looking into the well-preserved remnants of the ancient past,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/feature\/nasa-s-new-horizons-team-publishes-first-kuiper-belt-flyby-science-results\">Stern said in a news release<\/a>. \u201cThere is no doubt that the discoveries made about Ultima Thule are going to advance theories of solar system formation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.geekwire.com\/2019\/new-horizons-far-findings-solar-systems-kuiper-belt-turn-cover-story\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The space snowman known as 2014 MU69 or Ultima Thule added to its celebrity today by showing up on the cover of the journal Science, with the first peer-reviewed results from an encounter with NASA\u2019s New Horizons spacecraft laid out within. Close study of the two-lobed object \u2014 which orbits 4 billion miles from the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":465,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90813","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\/465"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90813\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}