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Keywords: kuiper belt, Pluto, planet
![Карта астероида Веста](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2006/08/21/0001215300/vesta1_hst.preview.jpg)
20.08.2006
Vesta is a huge rock 500 kilometers across that orbits out past Mars. In 1997, the above map of Vesta created using the Hubble Space Telescope was released showing a rugged surface highlighted by a single crater spanning nearly the entire length of the asteroid.
![Планета вблизи ядра галактики](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2003/04/18/0001189079/ngc4261_art_jg_big.preview.jpg)
5.05.1996
What would the night sky look like if you lived on a planet near the center of a galaxy? Now imagine that this galaxy houses a black hole billions of times more massive than a star. From this spectacular vantage point, the sky might look like the above illustration.
![Квавар: большой астероид на окраинах солнечной системы](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2002/10/11/0001180132/quaoar_gps.preview.gif)
9.10.2002
Asteroids almost as large as planets are still being discovered in our own Solar System. Recently an asteroid more than half the size of Pluto was found orbiting at a distance only a little further than the Solar System's most distant planet.
!["Новые Горизонты" стартуют к Плутону](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2006/01/24/0001211066/NHLaunch_cooper_8.preview.jpg)
23.01.2006
Destination: Pluto. The New Horizons spacecraft roared off its launch pad at Cape Canaveral in Florida, USA last week toward adventures in the distant Solar System. The craft is one of the fastest spaceships...
![2003 UB 313: десятая планета?](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2005/08/01/0001207483/2003ub313drawing_palomar.preview.jpg)
1.08.2005
Has a tenth planet been discovered? A newly discovered object, designated 2003 UB 313 and located more than twice the distance of Pluto, is expected to be at least as large as Pluto and probably larger, given current measurements.
![Солнечная система: открытие тела крупнее Плутона](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2005/08/03/0001207509/2003ub313_palomar_big.preview.jpg)
31.07.2005
Is that a tenth planet? A faint, slowly moving dot discovered by computer shows clear signs of being a deep Solar System object at least as large as Pluto. The object, designated 2003 UB 313 , is currently situated nearly 100 times the Earth-Sun distance -- over twice the average Pluto-Sun distance.
![Новые Горизонты около Ультима Туле](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2018/12/29/0001452720/NewHorizonsApproachesMU69_1024.preview.jpg)
28.12.2018
When we celebrate the start of 2019, on January 1 the New Horizons spacecraft will flyby Ultima Thule. A world of the Kuiper belt 6.5 billion kilometers from the Sun, the nickname Ultima Thule (catalog designation 2014 MU69) fittingly means "beyond the known world".
![Ультима и Туле](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2019/01/03/0001453332/20190102UltimaThule-pr600.preview.jpg)
2.01.2019
On January 1 New Horizons encountered the Kuiper Belt object nicknamed Ultima Thule. Some 6.5 billion kilometers from the Sun, Ultima Thule is the most distant world ever explored by a spacecraft from Earth.
![Вращение Ультима Туле](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2019/01/04/0001453464/UT-blink_3d_a.preview.gif)
3.01.2019
Ultima Thule is the most distant world explored by a spacecraft from Earth. In the dim light 6.5 billion kilometers from the Sun, the New Horizons spacecraft captured these two frames 38 minutes apart as it sped toward the Kuiper belt world on January 1 at 51,000 kilometers per hour.
![Истинные цвета Плутона](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2019/09/10/0001495897/PlutoTrueColor_NewHorizons_960.preview.jpg)
9.09.2019
What color is Pluto, really? It took some effort to figure out. Even given all of the images sent back to Earth when the robotic New Horizons spacecraft sped past Pluto in 2015, processing these multi-spectral frames to approximate what the human eye would see was challenging.
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