New Horizons, NASA's mission to the outer solar system, has been given a large chunk of time on the Hubble Space Telescope to assist an increasingly desperate search for an icy object the spacecraft can study after it hurtles past Pluto in July 2015, NASA headquarters announced on 16 June. The mission team has been unable to find a suitable Kuiper belt object for follow-up study, despite dozens of nights of time on some of Earth's largest ground-based telescopes. It needs to identify one as soon as possible to plan orbital adjustments with the spacecraft's limited supply of fuel.
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