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This illustration provided by NASA shows the New Horizons spacecraft. NASA launched the probe in 2006; it's about the size of a baby grand piano. NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft is set to fly past the mysterious object nicknamed Ultima Thule at 12:33 a.m. Tuesday, Jan. 1, 2019. (NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI via AP)

The Latest: NASA spacecraft dashes by world beyond Pluto

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FILE - This image made available by NASA in March 2017 shows Pluto illuminated from behind by the sun as the New Horizons spacecraft travels away from it at a distance of about 120,000 miles (200,000 kilometers). The probe will ring in 2019 by exploring an even more distant and mysterious world. (NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute via AP)

Pluto explorer ushering in new year at more distant world

By MARCIA DUNN - Associated Press

This July 2015 image made by the New Horizons spacecraft shows dunes, small ripples at bottom right, on Pluto's Sputnik Planitia ice plain. At upper left are a series of mountains. Researchers say the dunes appear to be made mostly of icy specks of methane the size of sand. Thought to be relatively recent, the dunes are located in Pluto’s heart-shaped region at the base of water ice-block mountains with methane snowcaps. (NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute via AP)

Dunes on Pluto made of tiny frozen grains of methane

By MARCIA DUNN - Associated Press

This July 13, 2015, image provided by NASA shows Pluto, seen from the New Horizons spacecraft. The United States is now the only nation to visit every single planet in the solar system. Pluto was No. 9 in the lineup when New Horizons departed Cape Canaveral, Fla, on Jan. 19, 2006 (NASA via AP)

‘Something wonderful’: 1st close-up pictures of Pluto

By Marcia Dunn - Associated Press

This July 11, 2015, image provided by NASA shows Pluto from the New Horizons spacecraft. (Associated Press)

Pluto up close: Spacecraft achieves flyby, then calls home

By Marcia Dunn - Associated Press

This July 11, 2015, image provided by NASA shows Pluto from the New Horizons spacecraft. (Associated Press)

It’s showtime for Pluto; prepare to be amazed by NASA flyby

By Marcia Dunn - Associated Press

This combination of images made by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope in 2002 and 2003 shows Pluto at different angles. NASA's New Horizons spacecraft is nearing the end of its nine-year voyage to Pluto, and has just over 100 million miles to go before getting there in July 2015. Starting Sunday, Jan. 25, 2015, it will begin photographing the mysterious, unexplored, icy world once deemed a planet. (AP Photo/NASA, ESA, M. Buie)

NASA spacecraft almost to Pluto: Smile for the camera!

By Marcia Dunn - Associated Press