Astronomers plan to redirect the spacecraft New Horizons to any of the dwarf planets discovered from the project IceHunters 
Zooniverse,project scientists, involving thousands of volunteers around the world, will launch in late May a new search program, in order to locate dwarf planets, in the region as Solarconocida System Kuiper Belt in which anyone interested can participate in helping the team to the New Horizons mission at NASA's next target location of the ship of the same name, once you arrive at Pluto in 2015.
Pluto is one of the thousand plutoids discovered so far in a region of the solar system known as the Kuiper Belt (Foto: Archivo EL UNIVERSAL )
Zooniverse,project scientists, involving thousands of volunteers around the world, will launch in late May a new search program, in order to locate dwarf planets, in the region as Solarconocida System Kuiper Belt in which anyone interested can participate in helping the team to the New Horizons mission at NASA's next target location of the ship of the same name, once you arrive at Pluto in 2015.
Scientists plan to redirect the spacecraft to any of the dwarf planets or plutoids (as was recently named by the International Astronomical Union), which is discovered by someone in a project called IceHunters, whose website is in its beta phase .
The New Horizons spacecraft was launched in 2006 in a 9-year epic journey to the dwarf planet Pluto, recently demoted from his status as a planet and that marked the boundary of the Solar System. Pluto is now part of the thousand plutoids discovered so far in a region of the solar system located beyond the planet Neptune and astronomers call the Kuiper belt.
The project Icehunters, astronomers made available to the general public a series of photographs taken from different telescopes around the world as the Subaru 8-meter diameter at Mauna Kea or the Magellan 6.5-meter diameter in Chile, to identify a Kuiper Belt object (KBO), which could become a potential exploration target for the New Horizons spacecraft, once you complete its mission to Pluto and its moon Charon, which will take 5 months.
The project Icehunters, astronomers made available to the general public a series of photographs taken from different telescopes around the world as the Subaru 8-meter diameter at Mauna Kea or the Magellan 6.5-meter diameter in Chile, to identify a Kuiper Belt object (KBO), which could become a potential exploration target for the New Horizons spacecraft, once you complete its mission to Pluto and its moon Charon, which will take 5 months.
The KBO to explore, should be between 40 and 90 kilometers in diameter and ideally be white or gray to contrast with the reddish color of Pluto.
Icehunters users will receive credit for each KBO discovered in addition to each asteroid will also be possible to discover in the pictures. The project results will be announced in December 2011 and spring 2012.
Scientists hope to learn more about the nature of these bodies, among which there may be some as big as the planet Mars and that would be explored between 2016 and 2019 by the New Horizons probe , which could shed more light on the formation of the Solar System.
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