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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It'll be the fastest spacecraft ever to Jupiter13 months after launch. We pass the Moon in just nine hours.
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It'll be the fastest spacecraft ever to Jupiter...13 months after launch. We pass the Moon in just nine hours.
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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.
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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.
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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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It used to be that Pluto was a misfit. Now it turns out that Earth is the misfit. Most planets in the solar system look like Pluto, and not like the terrestrial planets.
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It took us more years to get the mission beyond the Washington beltway than it will take to cross the entire Solar System.