Also the probe was able to calculate the speed of rotation.
The spacecraft NASA New Horizons has found an unknown object beyond Pluto in the Kuiper belt.
The probe sent a photo of a distant world called 1994 JR1 on the Ground.
A solid object reaches a width of about 145 km. It revolves around the Sun at a distance of 5 billion kilometers. The probe for the first time saw the mysterious celestial body from a distance of 280 million kilometers away. Recently with the help of the device Lorri long-range reconnaissance probe took pictures from a distance of 111 million kilometers.
Now scientists southwest research Institute concluded that the 1994 JR1 is not quasistatic Pluto, as previously thought. It is a completely independent body, which orbits in the Kuiper belt.
