Simon Porter7 April 2016
New Horizons images 1994 JR1 from about 111 million kilometres away, then the closest spacecraft observations of a small Kuiper Belt object.
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New Horizons images 1994 JR1 from about 111 million kilometres away, then the closest spacecraft observations of a small Kuiper Belt object.
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