October 16, 2014

Nikolay Davydenko at the 2009 U.S. Open

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The Russian tennis player Nikolay Davydenko announced his retirement. During his career, he won several tournaments, especially the 2009 ATP Finals. He reached no. 3 of the ATP rankings.

Artistic concept of a Kuiper Belt Object with its orbit compared to the ones of some planets (Image NASA, ESA, and G. Bacon (STScI))

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NASA announced that it identified three potential targets for the mission of the New Horizons spacecraft after its Pluto flyby. They are Kuiper Belt Objects (KBOs) found using the Hubble Space Telescope exactly for this purpose.

The research program of KBOs was successful from the start, leading to the discovery of two interesting objects and then three more. In particular, the first object discovered, identified as 1110113Y, was subsequently defined certainty targetable. For this reason, it’s called PT1 by the team of the New Horizons mission.