After making a historic Pluto fluby in deep space last July, NASA`s new horizons spacecraft has observed a Kuiper Belt for two times a region of the solar system just beside the orbit of Neptune. “1994 jRI” is orbiting more than 5 billion km from the sun in a 145 km wide Kuiper Belt Object (KBO).

Spacecraft`s long range reconnaissance imager (LORRI) taken in April. For the closest ever the images shatter new horizons own record of this KBO in November 2015 when detected “jR1” from 280 million km away.

“Combining the November 2015 and April 2016 observations allow us to pinpoint the location of JR1 to within 1,000 km, far better than any small KBO,” said Simon Porter from Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) in Boulder, Colorado.

The accurate orbit allows the science team to dispel a theory suggested several years ago when JR1 is a quasi-satellite of Pluto. They also determined the objects rotation observing the changes in light reflected from the jR1s surface to say that it rotates once every 5.4 hours.

“That’s relatively fast for a KBO. This is all part of the excitement of exploring new places and seeing things never seen before,” added science team member John Spencer from SwRI in a Nasa statement.

New horizons flow through Pluto system on July 14 with considering the first observations of Pluto and its family of five moons. The ultra close flyby is used by the space craft of another Kuiper Belt object in 2014 MU69 on January 1, 2019.