I think Pluto has to be considered among the places in the solar system that are possible homes for life. — David Grinspoon Copy Share Image
“ Where's my bed?! " Dairine shrieked. "It's on Pluto," Nita said. "On the winter side, somewhere nice and dark and quiet,… — Diane Duane Copy Share Image
When I started working with NASA in 1989 as part of a mission to send spacecraft to Pluto, I knew it would… — Alan Stern Copy Share Image
It used to be said that Pluto is a misfit. But now we know Earth is the misfit. This is the most… — 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
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
If Neptune were analogized with a Chevy Impala in mass, then how big is pluto compared to that? Pluto would be a… — Neil deGrasse Tyson 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
“Pluto is currently designated a 'plutoid', and if you think that sounds ok, try adding 'oid' to your name. Her? She's a… — Ruth Spencer 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
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
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
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
“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
“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
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
If you slid Pluto to where Earth is right now, heat from the sun would evaporate that ice, and it would grow… — Neil deGrasse Tyson 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
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
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
If the Pluto mission was a cat, then it would've been dead long ago because they only get nine lives, and we've… — Alan Stern Copy Share Image
If the Earth is the size of a pea in New York, then the Sun is a beachball 50m away, Pluto is… — Wayne Hays Copy Share Image
Pluto has strong atmospheric cycles: it snows on the surface; the snows sublimate and go back into the atmosphere each 248 year orbit. — Alan Stern Copy Share Image
We sat in silence, both of us looking up at the stars. He was probably envisioning a machine headed for Pluto. I… — Elizabeth Chandler Copy Share Image
How is the soul profited by the strife of Hector, the arguments of Plato, the poems of Virgil, or the elegies of… — Honorius Augustodunensis Copy Share Image
O Charidas, what of the under world? Great darkness. And what of the resurrection? A lie. And Pluto? A fable; we perish… — Callimachus Copy Share Image
You could not have predicted the amazing discoveries at Pluto, even though we have been to a couple of objects in the… — Alan Stern Copy Share Image
We're pretty sure there's plenty of organic material on Pluto. The atmosphere is largely methane, and in sunlight, methane builds organic molecules.… — David Grinspoon 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
New Horizons isn't just visiting Pluto; it's visiting this entire region. Whatever it finds, this will be a signal moment for planetary… — 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
“Nafasi yako peponi itapotea iwapo utamruhusu Pluto (kiongozi wa ahera) akukaribishe bazarai (makao makuu ya ahera) kwa kuchukua maisha yako mwenyewe. Kujiua… — Enock Maregesi Copy Share Image
Of course Pluto is a planet: It's massive enough to have its shape controlled by gravity rather than material strength, which is… — Alan Stern Copy Share Image
There is a planet named Pluto, but we don't have one named Goofy. Goofy would be a good name for this planet.… — George Carlin 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
“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
It's interesting - Pluto's almost a brand unto itself. It's the farthest. It's the most diminutive of the classical planets. It's been… — Alan Stern Copy Share Image
As my colleague, the physical chemist Peter Atkins, puts it, we must be equally agnostic about the theory that there is a… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
