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Sky This Month: July 2022

This could be supplemented by a comparative evaluation of 2014 MU69 (aka. Arrakoth), the KBO that the New Horizons probe studied throughout its close flyby in July 2015, and other KBOs to discover more about the origin of Triton. After finishing a few orbits, the spacecraft would release a series of little satellites and two probes to discover Neptune’s atmosphere and Triton’s surface . A different consideration was that offered the distances involved and the carrying capacity of a mission to deep space, the probe’s flight speed need to be enhanced as substantially as probable for the duration of the...