The most distant object ever visited by a spacecraft
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🗓️ 2 January 2019
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| 0:00.0 | Before today's episode, Dr. Jim Denison has a special note for you. |
| 0:03.7 | I want to thank each of you who contributed so graciously to our ministry in 2018. |
| 0:08.8 | We are entirely donor-supported. |
| 0:11.1 | Your gifts make this ministry possible. |
| 0:13.4 | Our entire team joins me in expressing gratitude for your encouragement and support. |
| 0:18.1 | Every life touched by this ministry is an extension of your faithfulness. |
| 0:21.8 | To God be the glory. |
| 0:23.8 | Now on to today's episode, the most distant object ever visited by a spacecraft. |
| 0:28.6 | This is Jim Denison's daily article for Wednesday, January 2, 2019. |
| 0:33.2 | What do NASA scientists and the lead guitarist for the rock band Queen have in common? |
| 0:37.4 | A bowling pin-shaped rock 4 billion miles from Earth that is making world headlines today. |
| 0:42.8 | Ultima Tully is a billion miles on the other side of Pluto. |
| 0:45.9 | The space rock is approximately 20 miles long by 10 miles wide and seems to spin like a propeller |
| 0:50.6 | through space. |
| 0:51.9 | It could also be two objects in orbit around each other. |
| 0:58.0 | The object was discovered by the Hubble Space Telescope four years ago and named 2014 MU69. Public campaign hosted by NASA renamed it. Ultima Tully is a reference to the most distant place |
| 1:05.0 | beyond the borders of the known world. Yesterday, the NASA spacecraft New Horizons conducted a successful flyby of this remote space |
| 1:12.6 | object. |
| 1:13.6 | Over the next few days, scientists expect to receive more photographs of the most distant object |
| 1:17.6 | ever visited by a spacecraft. |
| 1:19.6 | Because the probe is so far from Earth, scientists say data on Ultimatuli will continue streaming |
| 1:23.6 | to us until September 2020. |
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