NASA Pluto Probe Sets Course for Second Flyby Target

The NASA probe that flew by Pluto in July is now all lined up for a potential close encounter with a second faraway object, in 2019. NASA's New Horizons spacecraft completed the last of four trajectory-altering engine burns Wednesday (Nov. 4) and is now on course to a small body called 2014 MU69, which lies more than 1 billion miles (1.6 billion kilometers) beyond Pluto. The probe will study 2014 MU69 up close in January 2019, if NASA approves an extended mission.