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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Some models say the collapse can be very sudden. It can happen in a matter of months.
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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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It's now our job to be good stewards of the spacecraft. and to learn to fly it in the real environment that it was built for.
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Out Earth-based observations are still too crude to tell us much about what we'll see when we finally get there. We still don't know what we don't know about Pluto.
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I like to call this mission the Everest of planetary exploration. It's really fantastic.
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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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I will say that this has been our project mascot for a long time, this little ground-down pencil. And it represents perseverance to get this project under way, to get it built, to get it launched and now to get it to Pluto.
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These policies represented the hopes and the plans of those that were murdered in the Holocaust. They had taken out policies in order to protect their families.
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Some people think its 20 years off and some people think its five years off. No one really knows when Pluto's atmosphere will snow out and collapse.
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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 a whole new chapter in the Pluto story.
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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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Some of Clyde's ashes are on their way to Pluto today.
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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.