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Pluto is the new Mars.
I call Pluto the harbinger.
Pluto is not a planet, but I am.
What the hell happened to Pluto?!
Never go to Pluto, it's a Mickey Mouse planet.
I refuse to accept Pluto's resignation as a planet.
The Pluto system is much more complex than I had expected.
Liquids may have existed on the surface of Pluto in the past.
I'm not from this Earth - I'm from Pluto. I moved to Seattle when I was 2.
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.
People that lie to me generally get banished or vanished to the planet Pluto in my mind.
I'm pretty mutable as a human being, period - if you put me on Pluto, I can figure it out.
Pluto is as far across as Manhattan to Miami, but its atmosphere is bigger than the Earth's.
I bet most of the crowd does not know that there are six moons in the solar system bigger than Pluto.
When I was a kid, I went from ground zero to Pluto. The first place I played was the Houston Astrodome.
I think Pluto has to be considered among the places in the solar system that are possible homes for life.
As a planetary scientist, I don't know what else to call Pluto: It's big and round and thousands of miles wide.
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.
Pluto is showing us a diversity of landforms and complexity of processes that rival anything we've seen in the solar system.
Many people don't give a rip about politics and know as much about public affairs as they know about the topography of Pluto.
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.'
With any luck, by the time NASA's space probe hits Pluto, you'll be booking a spaceflight with a privately run suborbital airline.
It's strictly coincidental that Pluto of course was named for the god of the underworld and we're describing these Halloween moons
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.
Jupiter, Pluto, pick a planet: we can go there. I just got a bit more work to do in the music industry, and we're going to space, baby.
Back before the Kuiper Belt was discovered, Pluto did look like a misfit that didn't belong with either the terrestrials or the giant planets.
There are lots of really interesting little planets out there in the Kuiper Belt, but Pluto's the only one that's got all the cool attributes.
Of course Pluto is a planet: It's massive enough to have its shape controlled by gravity rather than material strength, which is the hallmark of planethood.
If you slid Pluto to where Earth is right now, heat from the sun would evaporate that ice, and it would grow a tail. Now that's no kind of behavior for a planet.
When I started working with NASA in 1989 as part of a mission to send spacecraft to Pluto, I knew it would take at least 10-15 years to see results of my efforts.
All Plutophiles are based in America. If you go to other countries, they have much less of an attachment to either the existence or preservation of Pluto as a planet.
I gotta say, Pluto is such a great character, and if I ever got to work with him, I'd be very happy. The scene where he gets caught in fly paper, he's such a great dog!
I loved Pluto. I was totally fascinated by Pluto. When I started in astronomy, I started looking at this region of the sky because I thought it was so interesting out there.
You could not have predicted the amazing discoveries at Pluto, even though we have been to a couple of objects in the solar system that were at least a little analogous to Pluto.
If the Pluto mission was a cat, then it would've been dead long ago because they only get nine lives, and we've had significantly more than nine stoppages and odd twists and turns.
If two billion people wanted to watch a robot fly by Pluto, imagine what it will be like when the first humans step on Mars. It'll be the most unifying event anybody could ever put on.
Just because Pluto orbits with many other dwarf planets doesn't change what it is, just as whether an object is a mountain or not doesn't depend on whether it's in a group or in isolation.
It used to be said that Pluto is a misfit. But now we know Earth is the misfit. This is the most populous class of planet in our solar system and we have never sent a mission to this class.
Why can't Pluto be a planet? Some people like Pluto. And if it doesn't exist then they don't have a favorite planet. Right? Please write back but not in cursive because I can't read cursive.
Just because Pluto or comets aren't as big as Jupiter doesn't mean they are not scientifically important - indeed, just the reverse is often true. Sometimes, great things come in small packages.
The New Horizons Pluto mission will be the first mission to a binary object and will help us understand everything from the origin of Earth's moon to the physics of mass transfer between binary stars.
I think that one of the things that will come out of the New Horizons mission is that the public will take a look, and they won't know what else to call Pluto but a planet - and a pretty exciting one.
When I was a little kid, we only knew about our nine planets. Since then, we've downgraded Pluto but have discovered that other solar systems and stars are common. So life is probably quite prevalent.
The planets. Now footnote, I'm including Pluto in the planets, because I think it's terrible what they did to Pluto. And it's still a planet to me. I grew up with Pluto as a planet, it will always be a planet.
There was a time when Pluto - which NASA's New Horizons spacecraft at last explored in 2015, a mission I led - was considered the last planet. We now know there are thousands of other - possibly inhabited - planets.