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 provides for us a window 41/2 billion years back in time to observe the formation conditions of giant planets. This is a little bit about rewriting the textbooks about the outer planets.
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We're realizing just how much there is to the deep, outer solar system. I think it's exciting that textbooks have to be rewritten, over and over.
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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've learned that the view of four inner rocky planets and four outer gas giants and one misfit Pluto is wrong. Now we understand Pluto's context.
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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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It'll be the fastest spacecraft ever to Jupiter13 months after launch. We pass the Moon in just nine hours.
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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.