The NASA probe, New Horizons, recently caught the 90-mile 1994 JR1 on camera, giving scientists more insight into its location on the outer edge of the solar system.
By Ben Thompson, Staff MAY 19, 2016
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NASA’s New Horizons probe recently documented the first object it has passed since its historic Pluto flyby this past July.
NASA announced Thursday New Horizons’ recording of 1994 JR1, a 90-mile Kuiper Belt Object (KBO) currently orbiting 3 billion miles from the sun. The space probe was able to capture 1994 JR1 using its on-board Long-Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) from a distance of 69 million miles away. NASA said the LORRI instrument caught the KBO twice on April 7 and 8, breaking the record for the closest view of a KBO - set by a New Horizons observation of 1994 JR1 late this past year, from approximately 170 million miles away, which at the time set its own record for closest KBO picture.
The first of the space agency’s New Frontiers missions, New Horizons will send back data from its encounter with Pluto through this year as it continues on its path to fly by the KBO 2014 MU69 in January, 2019.
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