Big Quote by Alan Stern

One of the implications of the discovery of the Kuiper Belt and its many small planets is that many scientists now think of the…

— Alan Stern

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

Going to the Kuiper Belt is like an archaeological dig into the history of the solar system.

— Alan Stern

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

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

The Pluto system is much more complex than I had expected.

— 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

Neptune controls Pluto's orbit. Neptune is the bully of that neighborhood.

— Mike Brown

Our solar system is actually a wild frontier, teeming with different, diverse places: planets and moons, millions of objects of ice and rock.

— Carrie Nugent

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

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

Pluto and its brethren are the most populous class of planets in our solar system.

— Alan Stern