NASA's New Horizons spacecraft will get three times closer to its next flyby target than it got to Pluto in July 2015, if all goes according to plan.
Mission team members aim to steer New Horizons within just 2,175 miles (3,500 kilometers) of the distant object 2014 MU69 in the Jan. 1, 2019 flyby , NASA officials announced Wednesday (Sept. 6).
During its epic Pluto flyby on July 14, 2015, New Horizons never got closer than 7,800 miles (12,550 km) to the dwarf planet's icy surface. [ Destination Pluto: NASA's New Horizons Mission in Pictures ]
Seems nice to me.