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New Horizons snaps finish buffering: Ultima Thule actually two dust bunnies that got snuggly 4.5 billion years ago

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"The coming days and months will bring higher resolution imagery as the probe continues to squirt its data back to Earth."

Apparently the transmission rate is 1000bps - described by a spokesperson as "glacial". There was a time about 50 years ago when a modem with that speed was considered almost impossibly fast.

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