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New Horizons: Possible clouds on Pluto, next target is Reddish
Washington, Oct 19 (IBNS): Hubble Space Telescope data suggests that 2014 MU69, a small Kuiper Belt object (KBO) about a billion miles (1.6 billion kilometers) beyond Pluto, is as red, if not redder, than Pluto. This is the first hint at the surface properties of the far flung object that New Horizons will survey on Jan 1, 2019.
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