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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Whether or not an object has a moon is not part of the criteria that we've considered, because so many small objects in the solar system have moons,
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I have July 14, 2015, emblazoned on my calendar. That's our arrival date at Pluto. We are now quite certain of that.
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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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We'll have to divide our attention four ways instead of two,
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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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Two or three days doesn't mean a hill of beans.
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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 thank them for being here with us.
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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.
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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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The United States is going to go down in history for the initial reconnaissance of the planets.
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This is a whole new chapter in the Pluto story.
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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.