Meanwhile, in October and November, the spacecraft set course for its next target, a thirty-mile-wide object named 2014 MU69, which is located in the Kuiper Belt, a disk of icy astronomical bodies beyond the orbit of Neptune.
About 66m years ago, a six-mile-wide object smashed into the Yucatán peninsula in Mexico, leading to the demise of not just the giant lizards, but also most of the plant and animal life on Earth.
These are among his arguments: *A survey of more than 315 square miles located 418 objects ranging from oil drums to ancient wrecks.
A servant or an employee, for instance, may have custody of an object, but he does not have possession; his employer does, even though he may be thousands of miles from the object he owns.
Judging from the impact crater, which is a hundred and twenty miles wide, the object — this big flaming ball — was some six miles across.
But then, a few miles south, the object of my real purpose: two rusting spires rising from the surf, all that was left of the tugboat.
They rode 10 miles — Mr. Erickson objected at first, saying it was too cold, but Ms. Giffords persuaded him — with the congresswoman snapping their picture with a cellphone along the way.
This is the Great Andromeda galaxy, spiral in shape and similar to Earth's own Milky Way galaxy, at 14 billion billion miles, the farthest object one can see with the naked eye.
Once it was decided — though at the time, the team had no idea how compelling MU69 would turn out to be — New Horizons altered its course to come within a few thousand miles of the object, close enough to get detailed imagery.
