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  • Summiting the Solar System Part 2: Approaching Ultima (2018– )
  • TV Mini-series | Documentary
Summiting the Solar System Part 2: Approaching Ultima (2018– )
TV Mini-series | Documentary

Just after midnight on January 1st 2019, a NASA spacecraft whizzed past the most distant space rock that's ever been visited in our Solar System. This remote interplanetary flyby will be over in a blink. But if successful, the event could ...See moreJust after midnight on January 1st 2019, a NASA spacecraft whizzed past the most distant space rock that's ever been visited in our Solar System. This remote interplanetary flyby will be over in a blink. But if successful, the event could tell us a whole lot about the objects that dominate the far reaches of our cosmic neighborhood. The robotic spacecraft making this daring visit is called New Horizons, and it's been traveling through space for 13 years, the first human-made object to ever visit Pluto in the summer of 2015. Three years later, it's ready to meet up with Ultima Thule located 1 billion miles beyond Pluto. That's 4.1 billion miles from Earth, the size of New York City, orbiting in an area of the Solar System known as the Kuiper Belt. This region of space, located beyond the orbit of Neptune, See less
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Release date (First episode)
Dec 30, 2018 (United States)

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27 cast members
Name Episodes Known for
Fran Bagenal
Self (2018) Self (2018)   See fewer
Alice Bowman
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Marc Buie
Self (2018) Self (2018)   See fewer
James Christy
Self (2018) (archive footage) Self (2018) (archive footage)   See fewer
Glen Fountain
Self (2018) Self (2018)   See fewer
James Green
Self (2018) Self (2018)   See fewer
Tom Guild
Narrator Narrator   See fewer
Ann Harch
Self (2018) Self (2018)   See fewer
Mark Holdridge
Self (2018) Self (2018)   See fewer
Carly Howett
Self (2018) Self (2018)   See fewer
Gerald Kuiper
Self (2018) (archive footage) Self (2018) (archive footage)   See fewer
Tod R. Lauer
Self (2018) Self (2018)   See fewer
Percival Lowell
Self (2018) (archive footage) Self (2018) (archive footage)   See fewer
Ted Nicolas II
Self (2018) Self (2018)   See fewer
Cathy Olkin
Self (2018) Self (2018)   See fewer
Alex Parker
Self (2018) Self (2018)   See fewer
Joel Parker
Self (2018) Self (2018)   See fewer
Simon Porter
Self (2018) Self (2018)   See fewer
Mark Showalter
Self (2018) Self (2018)   See fewer
Kelsi Singer
Self (2018) Self (2018)   See fewer
John Spencer
Self (2018) Self (2018)   See fewer
Alan Stern
Self (2018) Self (2018)   See fewer
Clyde Tombaugh
Self (2018) (archive footage) Self (2018) (archive footage)   See fewer
Hal Weaver
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Karl Whittenburg
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Leslie Young
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