NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft is speeding toward a New Year’s Day 2019 rendezvous with Kuiper Belt object 2014 MU69, which will be the farthest planetary encounter in history. This workshop will cover the scientific, operational and outreach elements of this amazing exploration – including the team’s initial recon on its flyby target, the dozens of observations of other Kuiper Belt Objects that no other spacecraft can provide, and how this multifaceted mission through the Kuiper Belt builds on the discovery and unprecedented excitement of New Horizons’ 2015 Pluto encounter.
Participants:
Alan Stern, Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, Colorado, U.S.A.;
Marc Buie, Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, Colorado, U.S.A.;
Alice Bowman, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, Maryland, U.S.A.;
Anne Verbiscer, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, U.S.A.;
Hal Weaver, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, Maryland, U.S.A.;
John Spencer, Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, Colorado, U.S.A.
