As calendars ticked over to 2019, probe was due to encounter space rock, but pictures will take six hours to cover 4bn miles back to Earth
A Nasa probe is due to have performed the most distant flyby in history in the early hours of New Year’s Day, barrelling past a space rock called Ultima Thule on the outer edge of the solar system.
Unless gremlins intervene, the New Horizons spacecraft will have zoomed by the cosmic body at 5.33am GMT and snapped thousands of photographs of the dark, icy body as it speeds on into the void.
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