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New year, New Horizons: NASA probe flies by distant Ultima Thule [i]NASA entered the new year with a new horizon, the farthest-ever encounter with a planetary object. The agency's New Horizons probe, which in 2015 was the first to zip past Pluto, flew by the even more distant small world "Ultima Thule" (officially 2014 MU69) on New Year's Day (Tuesday, Jan. 1). It was the first close pass by a spacecraft of a Kuiper Belt object, one of the primordial building blocks of the planets in our solar system.[/i]
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