the light from the Galactic Center is obscured by dust clouds are along New Horizonss flight path, allowing detection of objects that the spacecraft could image. , the highest-inclination Neptune trojan known, was just bright enough for New Horizons to observe it in end-2013 at a distance of 1.2 AU. However, New Horizons may not have had sufficient downlink bandwidth, so it was eventually decided to give precedence to the preparations for the Pluto flyby.

Dynamics and origin

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