Finding New Kuiper Belt Targets For New Horizons
This past summer my research life has been wholly consumed by a project I have been working on with the New Horizons Team. We are trying to find new objects to observe with the New Horizons Spacecraft.
The Spacecraft
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft was launched in 2006 and flew by Pluto, and the small Kuiper Belt Object Arrokoth. For a sense of what that was like, I made a rendering of the known Kuiper Belt, and the trajectory that the spacecraft took.