Cool Quote by Alan Stern

We were very surprised to find out that Pluto is still geologically alive. It has upended our ideas of how planetary geophysics works.

— Alan Stern

Pluto is showing us a diversity of landforms and complexity of processes that rival anything we've seen in the solar system.

— Alan Stern

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

Pluto has a very interesting history, and there is a lot of work that we need to do to understand this very complicated place.

— Alan Stern

What the hell happened to Pluto?!

— Jay Asher

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

We're pretty sure there's plenty of organic material on Pluto. The atmosphere is largely methane, and in sunlight, methane builds organic molecules. We see…

— David Grinspoon

“Decade by decade: estimates of Pluto’s size got smaller and smaller.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

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…

— Alan Stern

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…

— Buzz Aldrin

Pluto is not a planet, but I am.

— Shaquille O'Neal

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.

— Alan Stern