Kuiper Belt Object 1110113Y
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Title
Kuiper Belt Object 1110113Y
Subject
1110113Y
Description
ABOUT THIS IMAGE
A Kuiper Belt object (KBO) that is potentially reachable by NASA's Pluto-bound New Horizons probe is visible in multiple exposures taken with the Hubble Space Telescope. Hubble tracked the KBO (named 1110113Y or "PT1") moving against the crowded background field of stars in the constellation Sagittarius. The object is no bigger than 19 to 28 miles across, and it is a deep-freeze relic of what the outer solar system was like 4.6 billion years ago, during the period when the Sun formed. As the KBO orbits the Sun, its position noticeably shifts between exposures taken approximately 10 minutes apart. Following an initial proof of concept of the Hubble pilot observing program in June, the New Horizons team was awarded telescope time by the Space Telescope Science Institute for a wider survey in July. When the search was completed in early September, the team identified this KBO as "definitely reachable" by the New Horizons spacecraft.
A Kuiper Belt object (KBO) that is potentially reachable by NASA's Pluto-bound New Horizons probe is visible in multiple exposures taken with the Hubble Space Telescope. Hubble tracked the KBO (named 1110113Y or "PT1") moving against the crowded background field of stars in the constellation Sagittarius. The object is no bigger than 19 to 28 miles across, and it is a deep-freeze relic of what the outer solar system was like 4.6 billion years ago, during the period when the Sun formed. As the KBO orbits the Sun, its position noticeably shifts between exposures taken approximately 10 minutes apart. Following an initial proof of concept of the Hubble pilot observing program in June, the New Horizons team was awarded telescope time by the Space Telescope Science Institute for a wider survey in July. When the search was completed in early September, the team identified this KBO as "definitely reachable" by the New Horizons spacecraft.
ABOUT THE OBJECT
Object Name:
1110113Y
Object Description:
Kuiper Belt Object
Distance:
1110113Y was roughly 4 billion miles (43 A.U.) from Earth at the time of observation.
Source
https://hubblesite.org/image/3402/gallery
Date
2014-07-01
Type
Still Image
Identifier
STScI-2014-35
Files
Collection
Citation
“Kuiper Belt Object 1110113Y,” Dominican University SOIS Omeka Site, accessed November 14, 2024, http://108.166.64.190/omeka222/items/show/1875.