Happy New Year! The New Horizons flyby was successful!

New Horizons has "phoned home" as expected, 4 hours after its closest approach to 2014 MU69. Its brief transmission contained no science data, but gave the scientists welcome news: New Horizons has successfully pulled off the most distant flyby ever.

from Planetary Society Blog http://bit.ly/2AzPvNd
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