Back before the Kuiper Belt was discovered, Pluto did look like a misfit that didn't belong with either the terrestrials or the… — Alan Stern Copy Share Image
With any luck, by the time NASA's space probe hits Pluto, you'll be booking a spaceflight with a privately run suborbital airline. — Burt Rutan Copy Share Image
When I was a little kid, we only knew about our nine planets. Since then, we've downgraded Pluto but have discovered that… — Buzz Aldrin Copy Share Image
We really just didn't realize the diversity of planetary types in our solar system. Pluto looked like a misfit because it was… — Alan Stern Copy Share Image
We're just learning that a lot of planets are small planets, and we didn't know that before, fact is, in planetary science,… — Alan Stern Copy Share Image
Once solved, the severe handicaps imposed on space exploration by the weight and chemical limitations of rockets would no longer apply. The… — Donald A. Wollheim Copy Share Image
“Dear Dr. Ortiz— Congratulations on your discovery! We found the object, too, about six months ago and have been studying it in… — Mike Brown Copy Share Image
“The first two letters of the name Pluto are the initials of Percival Lowell. Its symbol is , a planetary monogram. But… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Pluto was a well-known fixture in Bad Münstereifel, at least among those who lived in the old part of town. A large,… — Helen Grant Copy Share Image
“Pluto was part of their mental landscape, the one they had constructed to organize their thinking about the solar system and their… — Mike Brown Copy Share Image
All Plutophiles are based in America. If you go to other countries, they have much less of an attachment to either the… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The sheer quantity of brain power that hurled itself voluntarily and quixotically into the search for new baseball knowledge was either exhilarating… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
Among the gods, there is a dispute as to which one of them originally thought of Christianity; or, as they call it,… — Tom Holt Copy Share Image
Imagine we could accelerate continuously at 1 g-what we're comfortable with on good old terra firma-to the midpoint of our voyage, and… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The Stone trembled and threw herself outward bound, toward Saturn. In her train followed hundreds and thousands and hundreds of thousands of… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
I actually started my career in planetary science with a master's thesis on Pluto. — Alan Stern Copy Share Image
“Pluto is at a point in its orbit where it’s actually closer to the sun than Neptune,” — Ken Lozito Copy Share Image
Pluto is showing us a diversity of landforms and complexity of processes that rival anything we've seen in the solar system. — Alan Stern Copy Share Image
I'm not from this Earth - I'm from Pluto. I moved to Seattle when I was 2. — Lil Mosey Copy Share Image
“….. Neptune, the outermost planet. No, it’s not Pluto. Get over it.” — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Whether there's even an ocean on Pluto deep inside is a question I hope New Horizons can address in indirect ways. — Alan Stern Copy Share Image
Pluto is as far across as Manhattan to Miami, but its atmosphere is bigger than the Earth's. — Alan Stern Copy Share Image
It's strictly coincidental that Pluto of course was named for the god of the underworld and we're describing these Halloween moons — Alan Stern Copy Share Image
There was a time when Pluto - which NASA's New Horizons spacecraft at last explored in 2015, a mission I led -… — Alan Stern Copy Share Image
There are lots of really interesting little planets out there in the Kuiper Belt, but Pluto's the only one that's got all… — Alan Stern Copy Share Image
“Okay. I've got one. Do you think Pluto should still be considered an actual planet in its own right?" "Much better. And… — Claire LaZebnik Copy Share Image
Just because Pluto or comets aren't as big as Jupiter doesn't mean they are not scientifically important - indeed, just the reverse… — Alan Stern Copy Share Image
How can I play baseball if I'm stupid? If I was stupid I wouldn't have pitched in the World Series. I'd be… — Joaquin Andujar Copy Share Image
“Pluto will always be a planet in my book. That’s because my book was published before Pluto was blacklisted by planetary scientists.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
This is in a real sense the capstone of the initial missions to explore the planets. Pluto, its moons and this part… — Alan Stern Copy Share Image
I'm a fan of the planets in any combination. When I was born, Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto, the Sun,… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I think when people see Pluto revealed by New Horizons, its satellite system, its complex surface, its atmosphere, I think they'll have… — Alan Stern Copy Share Image
“Humanity’s first faster-than-light spacecraft crashed into Pluto and vaporised a significant portion of it. Oops. Pluto’s status as a planet had been… — L. G. Estrella Copy Share Image
When I was little, we had a Golden Book that had all these Disney characters in one portrait on the first page.… — Danica McKellar Copy Share Image
“Decade by decade: estimates of Pluto’s size got smaller and smaller.” — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“The stars’ positions were randomly generated, a fact that drove Pluto crazy.” — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
