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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I don't believe we should classify planetary objects by location. We should use properties of the objects as a guide.
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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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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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Just as a Chihuahua is still a dog, these ice dwarfs are still planetary bodies.
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I like to call this mission the Everest of planetary exploration. It's really fantastic.
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We're going to be like kids in a candy shop when we arrive at a system like this.
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The United States is going to go down in history for the initial reconnaissance of the planets.
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Even though it's not as sensitive or as high resolution as the Hubble, we're able to look at the inner planets close to the sun and map wide regions of the sky very quickly.
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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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I ... was not comfortable with launching without backup power. I've been working on this for 17 years ... Two or three days doesn't mean a hill of beans.
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The air conditioning was off. The flight controllers were sitting there wiping sweat.
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Pluto is just the brightest of the many objects in the Kuiper Belt. It's a fossil relic of the formation of our solar system.
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Some of Clyde's ashes are on their way to Pluto today.
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Some models say the collapse can be very sudden. It can happen in a matter of months.