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NASA Has Conducted The Most Distant Fly-By Of Any Object In History. The Object, Ultima Thule, Is in The Kuiper Belt , A Billion Miles From Pluto–Most Distant Planet From The Sun, And About 4 Billion Miles From Earth. Data From New Horizon Took About 11 Hours To Reach Earth Due To Its Distance.

NASA provides first image from record-setting flyby of Ultima Thule – CNN

https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/01/world/new-horizons-ultima-thule-flyby-success/index.html

Mission scientists have confirmed that the New Horizons spacecraft conducted a flyby of Ultima Thule, a Kuiper Belt object that’s a billion miles beyond Pluto.