Alan Stern
Alan Stern
Sol Alan Sternis an American engineer and planetary scientist. He is the principal investigator of the New Horizons mission to Pluto and the Chief Scientist at Moon Express...
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Around 20 percent of Kuiper Belt objects have a moon. We think a lot of astronomers are going to be looking now for multiple satellite systems.
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The Kuiper Belt is the largest structure in the solar system. We used to think Pluto was a misfit.
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The U.S. has a spacecraft on its way to Pluto, on to the Kuiper belt and on to the stars.
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Exploring Pluto and the Kuiper Belt is like conducting an archaeological dig into the history of the outer solar system, a place where we can peek into the ancient era of planetary formation.
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We know of 17 objects that could be called planets, most of which are ice dwarfs. So Pluto is typical of what is probably the most populous type of planet in our solar system. It probably mimics other Kuiper Belt objects.
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Our result suggests that other bodies in the Kuiper Belt may have more than one moon as well,
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Our result suggests other bodies in the Kuiper Belt may have more than one moon. It also means planetary scientists will have to take these new moons into account when modeling the formation of the Pluto system.
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It's ... strictly coincidental that Pluto of course was named for the god of the underworld and we're describing these Halloween moons.
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It's ... strictly coincidental that Pluto, of course, was named for the god of the underworld and we're describing these Halloween moons.
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This is in a very real sense the capstone of the initial reconnaissance of the planets that the United States has led for the world since the 1960s.
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I jokingly say now that New Horizons is the first mission to the nearest example of the last planet.
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In a real sense, this is not just a 4 billion-mile journey, but also a journey 4 billion years back in time.
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Not even Tombaugh and his mentors could have forecast how fascinating their new planet would turn out to be.
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SWUIS operated flawlessly. We think we've got some great data in our pocket including some spectacular data on the mapping of the moon.