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https://gizmodo.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/07/1507507709119252296.jpg?quality=75800534With Pluto receding into the distance, New Horizons is speeding merrily along toward its next destination. On Wednesday, the spacecraft completed its fourth and final engine burn, placing it on course for 2014 MU69, an ancient, frozen body located more than a billion miles beyond Pluto in the Kuiper Belt.