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Summiting the Solar System" is a story of exploration at its most ambitious and extreme. The feature-length documentary is debuting in December 2018, just before NASA's New Horizons spacecraft flies by a small Kuiper Belt Object known scientifically as 2014 MU69, but nicknamed "Arrokoth." »
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The PI's Perspective: An Update from Deep in the Kuiper Belt
August 5, 2026
New Horizons scientists continue to publish discoveries about Kuiper Belt object Arrokoth, including a geologic map of Arrokoth; studies of how craters form on Arrokoth; an updated 3D shape model of the distant KBO; and modeling of how Arrokoth’s interior may have evolved.
April 25, 2015
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