List of New Horizons topics

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List of New Horizons topics is a list of topics related to the New Horizons spacecraft, an unmanned space probe launched 2006 to Pluto and beyond.

On January 19, 2006 it was launched directly into a solar-escape trajectory at {{convert|16.26|km/s|km/h mph|0|sp=us}} from Cape Canaveral using an Atlas V version with 5 SRBs and Star 48B thirdstage .{{cite web |url=https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/life-unbounded/the-fastest-spacecraft-ever/ |title=The Fastest Spacecraft Ever? |work=Scientific American |first=Caleb A. |last=Scharf |date=February 25, 2013 |accessdate=July 12, 2017}} New Horizons passed the Moon's orbit in just nine hours.{{cite web |url=https://airandspace.si.edu/stories/editorial/first-mission-pluto-difficult-birth-new-horizons |title=First Mission to Pluto: The Difficult Birth of New Horizons |publisher=Smithsonian |first=Michael |last=Neufeld |date=July 10, 2015 |accessdate=April 21, 2018}}{{cite web |url=http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/Mission/The-Path-to-Pluto/FINAL-PLUTO_MO.pdf |title=New Horizons: Mission Overview |publisher=International Launch Services |date=January 2006 |accessdate=April 21, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160909024832/http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/Mission/The-Path-to-Pluto/FINAL-PLUTO_MO.pdf |archive-date=September 9, 2016 |url-status=dead }}

• 132524 APL, Distant observation target
• 15810 Arawn (1994 JR1), Distant observation target
• 2011 HM102, Neptune Trojan considered as an observation target{{cite web

|title = 2011 HM102: A new companion for Neptune

|author = Alex Parker

|publisher = The Planetary Society

|date = 30 April 2013

|url = http://www.planetary.org/blogs/guest-blogs/2013/0430-2011hm102-new-neptune-companion.html

|access-date= 4 August 2017}}

• 2011 KW48, distant observation target
• 2014 MT69, former candidate for New Horizons flyby.{{cite web|author=Zangari, Amanda|title=Postcards from Pluto|url=http://plutopostcards.tumblr.com/post/114890975293/picture-from-the-colorado-dmv-im-super-excited|publisher=Tumblr|date=March 28, 2015}}
• 2014 OS393, former potential flyby target
• 2014 PN70, former potential flyby target
• 486958 Arrokoth, flyby on New Year's Day 2019
• Alice (spacecraft instrument), one of seven major instruments on New Horizons{{Cite web|url=http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/Mission/Spacecraft/|title=New Horizons|website=pluto.jhuapl.edu|language=en|access-date=2018-10-21}}
• Alice Bowman, New Horizons staff
• AJ-60A, solid rocket booster of which five were used in the New Horizons launch.
• Atlas V, New Horizons launch vehicle
• Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Space Launch Complex 41, launch site
• Centaur (rocket stage), New Horizons upper stage
• Charon (moon), Pluto's big moon
• Common Core Booster, part of New Horizons first stage launcher
• Clyde Tombaugh, discovered Pluto in 1930 from Lowell Observatory
• Kirk (crater)
• Kuiper belt, region from about 30-60 AU New Horizons explores
• Lisa Hardaway, New Horizons staff
• Long Range Reconnaissance Imager, one of seven major instruments on New Horizons
• GPHS-RTG, electrical and thermal heat source of New Horizons
• Interplanetary dust cloud
• Interplanetary medium, studied during Hibernation
• Mongoose-V, CPU in New Horizons
• NASA Deep Space Network, for New Horizons Earth radio communications
• Nasreddin (crater)
• New Frontiers program, NASA parent program of New Horizons
• New Horizons 2, design study for twin
• Organa (crater)
• Pluto, primary target of New Horizons
• Pluto Energetic Particle Spectrometer Science Investigation, one of seven major instruments on New Horizons
• Ralph, one of seven major instruments on New Horizons
• REX, one of seven major instruments on New Horizons
• Daniel Sarokon, NASA employee honored at New Horizons launch{{Cite web|url= http://triblive.com/x/leadertimes/news/s_414000.html#axzz3fCmHW0nI |title= Spacecraft will carry memory of Sagamore native |publisher= Trib Total Media, Inc. |last= Shuster |first= Patrick |date= January 16, 2006 |accessdate= July 8, 2015}}
• Star 48B, New Horizons 3rd stage
• Alan Stern, New Horizons staff
• SWAP, one of seven major instruments on New Horizons
• Tvashtar Paterae
• Vader (crater), crater observed by New Horizons
• Venetia Burney Student Dust Counter, one of seven major instruments on New Horizons
• Venetia Burney, New Horizons instrument honorific, Burney proposed Pluto's name in 1930