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Edited New Horizons PR image of the Kuiper Belt Object (KBO) 2012 HZ84. Color/processing variant.
Image source: pluto.jhuapl.edu/News-Center/News-Article.php?page=20180208
Original caption: With its Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI), New Horizons has observed several Kuiper Belt objects (KBOs) and dwarf planets at unique phase angles, as well as Centaurs at extremely high phase angles to search for forward-scattering rings or dust. These December 2017 false-color images of KBOs 2012 HZ84 (left) and 2012 HE85 are, for now, the farthest from Earth ever captured by a spacecraft. They're also the closest images ever of KBOs. Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute
The A319 in retro SAS c/s seen here is OY-KBO. It is ready for departure at Düsseldorf on 30 september 2006. © Bert Visser