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50th Meeting of the AAS Division for Planetary Sciences, Knoxville, TN
Wednesday, 24 October 2018, 12:15 pm EDT

Members of the New Horizons team preview the mission’s 1 January 2019 flyby of “Ultima Thule” in the Kuiper Belt. This will be the most distant planetary encounter in history. Team members will cover the significance and challenges of the flyby, its science goals and operational timelines, and the Kuiper Belt in the context of solar system exploration.

Welcome
Shantanu Naidu (DPS Press Officer)

Presenters:
* Alan Stern (principal investigator, Southwest Research Institute)
* Carey Lisse (science team member, Johns Hopkins Univ. Applied Physics Lab.)
* Hal Weaver (project scientist, Johns Hopkins Univ. Applied Physics Lab.)
* Kelsi Singer (co-investigator, Southwest Research Institute)