Artist’s impression of the New Horizons spacecraft and a Kuiper belt object JHUAPL/SwRI
The New Horizons spacecraft has noticed two pairs of small asteroids known as “tight twins” on the outer edges of our cosmic neighbourhood. These objects might assist us perceive how planets had been fashioned within the early photo voltaic system.
The members of those pairs of asteroids are so shut collectively that we might by no means inform from any Earth-based telescope that they include two separate objects.
“To make these observations, we needed to press the highest-resolution digital camera on the spacecraft… and …
