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Pluto is the new Mars.
People dig exploration.
I call Pluto the harbinger.
My field is called planetary science.
Every mission has life-or-death moments.
Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
Why would you listen to an astronomer about a planet?
The Pluto system is much more complex than I had expected.
I expect New Horizons will see more that Hubble cannot see.
Liquids may have existed on the surface of Pluto in the past.
Science is really about individual experts reaching a consensus.
A miniature poodle is not not a dog just because it's miniature.
Most of the oceans in the Solar System are deep beneath ice shelves.
Human beings have long wondered whether they are alone in the universe.
Pluto and its brethren are the most populous class of planets in our solar system.
I actually started my career in planetary science with a master's thesis on Pluto.
Either data supports the observations or they don't. Voting doesn't work in science.
I'm the one who originally coined the term 'dwarf planet,' back in the nineteen-nineties.
As a researcher, I look forward to being able to do space science in a space environment.
Pluto is as far across as Manhattan to Miami, but its atmosphere is bigger than the Earth's.
Going to the Kuiper Belt is like an archaeological dig into the history of the solar system.
Having a diverse suite of U.S.-manned spaceflight systems to access space is inherently robust.
The solar system is completely wide open. Almost anywhere we go, I'm sure we would learn a lot.
That so many binary or quasi-binary KBOs exist came as a real surprise to the research community.
We made more than just scientific discoveries... we rediscovered how much people love exploration.
People know a planet when they see one, and I think that's a pretty darn good test, in fact, for planethood.
CSF and its members believe strongly in the exploration of space of all kinds, including commercial purposes.
It'll be the fastest spacecraft ever to Jupiter...13 months after launch. We pass the Moon in just nine hours.
As a planetary scientist, I don't know what else to call Pluto: It's big and round and thousands of miles wide.
If you put Earth out beyond Neptune, you wouldn't be able to call it a planet because it couldn't clear its zone.
We're going to find Marses and maybe Earths out in the solar system's attic of the Oort Cloud and the Kuiper Belt.
Whether there's even an ocean on Pluto deep inside is a question I hope New Horizons can address in indirect ways.
By going to Pluto, we have a chance to anchor, with real data, models of the early evolution of Earth's atmosphere.
I've been on 26 space missions; they range from suborbital to orbital to shuttle experiments to planetary missions.
I tell public audiences, don't go to a podiatrist for brain surgery; don't go to an astronomer for planetary science.
CASIS has to succeed because for it not to succeed would be a huge setback for the International Space Station program.
How can an adjective in front of a noun not describe the noun? There are dwarf stars, but they're still considered stars.
The basic story for Golden Spike is that we discovered a way to create do-it-yourself Apollo programs for other countries.
Pluto is showing us a diversity of landforms and complexity of processes that rival anything we've seen in the solar system.
We're in the space exploration business, and the outer solar system is a wild, wooly place. We haven't explored it very well.
Pluto has a very interesting history, and there is a lot of work that we need to do to understand this very complicated place.
If you go to planetary science meetings and hear technical talks on Pluto, you will hear experts calling it a planet every day.
I can't imagine how many kids around the world will look at pictures of Pluto and think, 'I want to grow up to be a scientist.'
Even in our deep ocean, there are ecosystems at work with no light whatsoever down in the deepest portions of the oceanic abyss.
It's strictly coincidental that Pluto of course was named for the god of the underworld and we're describing these Halloween moons
The big lesson of planetary science is when you do a first reconnaissance of a new kind of object, you should expect the unexpected.
I just think it's patently absurd for scientists to categorize objects on the basis of the numbers of objects that they can remember.
Pluto has strong atmospheric cycles: it snows on the surface; the snows sublimate and go back into the atmosphere each 248 year orbit.
We were very surprised to find out that Pluto is still geologically alive. It has upended our ideas of how planetary geophysics works.
To say that what a planet is doesn't matter would be to imply that a planetary scientist couldn't explain to someone what the field is about.