2014 MU69 is a Contact Binary

2014 MU69 is a Contact Binary
This is one of the first images of 2014 MU69 that was published from the flyby on January 1, 2019. This image was captured by the Long-Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) on board New Horizons on 12:01 am, January 1, 2019 from a distance of about 17,000 miles. Image Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute
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Scott MacNeill
Entry Date:
Jan 1, 2019
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