One Year Ago, NASA's New Horizons Made the Most Distant Flyby in Space History

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A year after New Horizons buzzed its second target, Arrokoth, a wealth of science has been revealed.

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[DaveAG]

How could they have selected Arrokoth as the target when the team controlling/developing/managing New Horizons went to great lengths to explain how Pluto was effectively a 6^2 pixel wide image even using the Hubble to view it? I guess I am confused as Arrokoth must have been all but impossible to see given that it is far smaller even than Pluto? Did I miss something?