New Horizons and the Hunt for a Flyby Target

The proposed Roman Space Telescope survey aims to discover and study hundreds of Kuiper Belt Objects (KBOs), providing insights into their formation, cratering history, and binary nature. It may also identify a flyby target for NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft before it leaves the Kuiper Belt. This project will explore previously uncharted regions, testing theories of planetary evolution while also contributing to exoplanet and galactic studies.