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Description: Five Hubble Space Telescope Wide Field Camera 3 images of a faint, distant object that will be visited by New Horizons in January 2019: 2014 MU69. The photos were taken on June 24, 2014. The object has a magnitude of 26.8, too faint to be observed by ground-based telescopes.
Title: 2014 MU69 Discovery Images Animated
Credit: http://www.planetary.org/multimedia/space-images/small-bodies/pt1-discovery.html image-URL
Author: NASA, ESA, SwRI, JHU/APL, and the New Horizons KBO Search Team
Usage Terms: Public domain
License: Public domain
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