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Princess Turandot

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2. From the article. Bill McKinnon: "Not just a space potato"
Thu Feb 13, 2020, 08:27 PM
Feb 2020

A great line.

Lucky indeed! It took the New Horizons team several years of looking for an object that NH could reach (location and fuel-wise), before they found Ultima Thule. And it turned out to be a bonanza.



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