The team behind NASA&#x27;s New Horizons mission is about to get some good looks at the Pluto probe&#x27;s next flyby target, if everything goes according to plan. New Horizons is speeding toward a Jan. 1, 2019, close encounter with a small object called 2014 MU69, which lies about 1 billion miles (1.6 billion kilometers) beyond the orbit of Pluto.