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First image of 2014 MU69 returned to Earth after New Horizons flyby

First image of 2014 MU69 returned to Earth after New Horizons flyby
First image of 2014 MU69 returned to Earth after New Horizons flyby The Long-Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) took this photo of 2014 MU69 on 1 January 2019 at 5:01 UT, just 30 minutes before closest approach, from a range of 28,000 kilometers, with an original scale of 140 meters per pixel. It has been sharpened and enlarged. NASA / JHUAPL / SwRI