NASA asks public to help nickname space object named 'MU69'
NASA is asking for public help to nickname its new flyby destination currently bearing the "unexciting name (486958) 2014 MU69". The object lies in the Kuiper Belt, a cloud of small bodies orbiting beyond Neptune. NASA's New Horizons spacecraft, which flew past Pluto in 2015, would make a record attempt to visit the most remote world ever explored by humankind.