New Horizons co-investigator John Spencer, right, of the Southwest Research Institute during a briefing prior to the expected flyby of Ultima Thule by the New Horizon spacecraft at Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory December 31, 2018 in Laurel, Maryland. The flyby by the space probe occurred 6.5bn km (4bn miles) away, making it the most distant ever exploration of an object in our Solar System.

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