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A probe from the US Space Agency "NASA" on Tuesday on the celestial orbit, a precedent in the world of space while "New Horizons" approached the asteroid "Ultima Toll" located six or 400 million kilometers from the Earth, on a very long distance on the sun. "No investigation has for the moment explored a crime," said scientific director Alan Stern.
shaven SIP NASA's New Horizons is about to rise above the celestial orb, said the mission's scientific director.
"Bravo New Horizons!" Said Alan Stern. The Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Maryland celebrated the moment at 17:33 GMT when the probe targeted the axis of the UltimaTole asteroid, located between 6 and 400 million kilometers from the Earth, too far from the sun to stay frozen. And maintain the elements that make up the beginning of the formation with the emergence of the solar system four billion and 500 million years ago.
"No investigation has for the moment explored a crime," Stern said.
The asteroid Ultima Tol is located in the Kuiper Belt, a cloud of ancient bodies that encapsulates the solar system.
Scientists hope that the observation of this object will better understand how the solar system is formed.
France 24 / AFP
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