NASA receives 2019 by identifying the most distant asteroid on the planet

It is located at a distance of 6 billion and 400 million km

NASA will receive the New Year tonight, awaiting the first signals from the "New Horizons" spacecraft, which will fly near the Earth, which humans are closely exploring to this day, located at the ends of the solar system.

On Tuesday, at 3:35 pm, the probe approaches the lowest beach of the Oltima Tulle asteroid, 35,000 km long, according to AFP.

It is located at a very distant distance from the sun, six or four hundred million kilometers from the Earth. It is frozen and retains the elements that formed it at the beginning of its formation, with the creation of the solar system four billion and 500 million years ago.

NASA will host New Year's solutions with a live broadcast program on its website, while the probe is next to the asteroid.

It will be accompanied by a song by Brian May, famous guitarist and co-founder of the Queen Group, also holding a Ph.D. in astrophysics.

The first images of the asteroid "Oltima" arriving at noon tomorrow will not be possible to get direct images of the probe lying next to the asteroid because the time required for the arrival of the signals of this distance is greater than six hours.

Hopefully, the first images of Oltima will arrive before Tuesday afternoon, which scientists eagerly await to start studying, which will help understand the formation of the solar system.

The asteroid Ultima Tol is located in the Kuiper Belt, a cloud of ancient bodies that encapsulates the solar system.

Scientists do not yet know exactly the shape of the asteroid. They were spotted for the first time in 2014 for the Hubble telescope. They do not know if it's one or more pieces, but they know that it is too small, a hundred times smaller than the planet Pluto.