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Eye's on the New Horizons and the Kuiper Belt
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<blockquote data-quote="rockytopva" data-source="post: 73504227" data-attributes="member: 279443"><p><a href="http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/News-Center/News-Article.php?page=20181222" target="_blank">New Horizons: News Article?page=20181222</a></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><strong>December 22, 2018</strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><strong>New Horizons Notebook: On Ultima's Doorstep</strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><strong>Final Maneuver Guides New Horizons Precisely to Ultima</strong></span></p><p></p><p>New Horizons carried out its last trajectory correction maneuver on approach to Ultima Thule last week, a short thruster burst to direct the spacecraft closer to its precise flyby aim point just 2,200 miles (3,500) above the mysterious Kuiper Belt object at 12:33 am EST on Jan. 1.</p><p></p><p>At 7:53 a.m. EST on Dec. 18, New Horizons fired its small thrusters for just 27 seconds, a 0.26 meter-per-second adjustment that corrected about 180 miles (300 kilometers) of estimated targeting error and sped up the arrival time at Ultima by about five seconds.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="rockytopva, post: 73504227, member: 279443"] [URL='http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/News-Center/News-Article.php?page=20181222']New Horizons: News Article?page=20181222[/URL] [SIZE=5][B]December 22, 2018[/B] [B]New Horizons Notebook: On Ultima's Doorstep[/B][/SIZE] [SIZE=4][B]Final Maneuver Guides New Horizons Precisely to Ultima[/B][/SIZE] New Horizons carried out its last trajectory correction maneuver on approach to Ultima Thule last week, a short thruster burst to direct the spacecraft closer to its precise flyby aim point just 2,200 miles (3,500) above the mysterious Kuiper Belt object at 12:33 am EST on Jan. 1. At 7:53 a.m. EST on Dec. 18, New Horizons fired its small thrusters for just 27 seconds, a 0.26 meter-per-second adjustment that corrected about 180 miles (300 kilometers) of estimated targeting error and sped up the arrival time at Ultima by about five seconds. [/QUOTE]
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