Back Quote by Alan Stern Download Open image “I'm the one who originally coined the term 'dwarf planet,' back in the nineteen-nineties.” — Alan Stern ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Back Dwarf Originally Planet Who
If you go to planetary science meetings and hear technical talks on Pluto, you will hear experts calling it a planet every day. — 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, objects such… — Alan Stern Copy Share Image
Before 1995, the only planets we knew about were the planets in our solar system. — Debra Fischer Copy Share Image
As a planetary scientist, I don't know what else to call Pluto: It's big and round and thousands of miles wide. — Alan Stern Copy Share Image
Pluto's orbit is so elongated that it crosses the orbit of another planet. Now that's... you've got no business doing that if you want… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“It turns out to be the new Planet, which, a decade and a half later, will be known first as the Georgian, and then… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
Sir,-The Planet [Neptune] whose position you marked out actually exists. On the day on which your letter reached me, I found a star of… — Johann Gottfried Galle Copy Share Image
“The only way to be a giant in this universe is to realise first that you are a dwarf yet!” — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
“More than 619,000 minor planets have been discovered in the Solar System.” — IP Factly Copy Share Image
Competition-driven innovation and price pressure that commercial practices foster can only make human spaceflight ever more common and U.S. leadership in this domain ever… — Alan Stern 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 the hallmark… — 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 populous class… — Alan Stern Copy Share Image
The Kuiper belt region, which I call the third zone because it lies beyond the rocky terrestrial planets and beyond the giant planets, is… — Alan Stern Copy Share Image
I think if you were between maybe 6 and 16, there was nothing like Apollo, and I wonder if there can be something like… — Alan Stern Copy Share Image
If you put Earth out beyond Neptune, you wouldn't be able to call it a planet because it couldn't clear its zone. — Alan Stern Copy Share Image
When we first sent missions to Jupiter, no one expected to find moons that would have active volcanoes. And I could go down a… — Alan Stern Copy Share Image
Pluto is still active four and a half billion years into its history. It was expected that small planets like Pluto would cool off… — Alan Stern Copy Share Image
The Kuiper Belt is the largest mapped structure in our planetary system, three times as big as all the territory from the sun out… — Alan Stern Copy Share Image
If two billion people wanted to watch a robot fly by Pluto, imagine what it will be like when the first humans step on… — Alan Stern Copy Share Image
To keep everyone invested in your vision, you have to back up a little bit and really analyze who the different stakeholders are and… — Alan Stern Copy Share Image
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In Congress, Florida Republicans worked with the Trump administration to secure funding for coastal restoration projects following the devastating impacts of Hurricanes Irma and… — Michael Waltz Copy Share Image
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