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PT2 (other)
PT2 or ''variant'' may refer to: * New Horizons PT2 aka 2014 OS393 * Pratt & Whitney PT2 company designation for the Pratt & Whitney T34 turboprop aircraft engine * PT boat#History, PT-2, a pre-World War II US Navy PT-boat. * Prison Tycoon 2: Maximum Security (2006 videogame) * paratriathlon classification#PT2, PT2 a paratriathlon classification, See also * Part Two (other) {{Letter-Number Combination Disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Horizons PT2
, unofficially designated , and , is a minor-planet moon, binary trans-Neptunian object in the classical Kuiper belt, the outermost region of the Solar System. It was first observed by the New Horizons KBO Search using the Hubble Space Telescope on 30 July 2014. Until 2015, when the object 486958 Arrokoth was selected, it was a potential flyby target for the ''New Horizons'' probe. Estimated to be approximately in diameter, the object has a poorly determined orbit as it had been observed for only a few months. Discovery and designation was discovered by the New Horizons Search Team with the help of the Hubble Space Telescope because the object has a magnitude of 26.3, which is too faint to be observed by ground-based telescopes. Preliminary observations by the HST searching for New Horizons#Suitable KBOs, KBO flyby targets for the ''New Horizons'' probe started in June 2014, and more intensive observations continued in July and August. was first discovered in observ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
