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Launched on Jan 19, 2006, New Horizons made a spectacular flyby of Pluto in July 14, 2015.

On Jan 1, 2019, it flew by the most distant object ever visited by a spacecraft, the contact binary trans-Neptunian object 2014 MU6, nicknamed Arrokoth.

Arrokoth means "sky" in the Powhatan/Algonquin language.

New Horizons also saw evidence for methanol, water ice and organic molecules on the red surface of the 36 km Kuiper Belt object.

http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/Arrokoth/Arrokoth.php
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/486958_Arrokoth
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