New Horizons’ next target has been dubbed Ultima Thule
The name was chosen from about 34,000 submissions
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ULTIMATE DESTINATION NASA has chosen Ultima Thule as the name of the next destination of the New Horizons spacecraft, depicted in this artist’s impression as a binary system.
Steve Gribben/SwRI/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/NASA