New Horizons principal investigator Alan Stern during the press conference before the expected flyby of Ultima Thule by the spacecraft at Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory December 31, 2018 in Laurel, Maryland. The flyby by the space probe occurred km (4bn miles) away, making it the most distant ever exploration of an object in our Solar System.

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