Belts Quote by Alan Stern

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

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

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

In the mind of the public, the word 'planet' carries a significance lacking in other words used to describe planetary bodies... many members of…

— Alan Stern

Planets are the big bullies of the planetary system that are, that basically ignore everybody else around them. And everybody else has to deal…

— Mike Brown

The universe has told us the most common types of planets are small planets, and our study shows these are exactly the ones that…

— Debra Fischer

It shouldn't be so difficult to determine what a planet is. When you're watching a science fiction show like 'Star Trek' and they show…

— Alan Stern

Pluto is not a planet, but I am.

— Shaquille O'Neal

We really just didn't realize the diversity of planetary types in our solar system. Pluto looked like a misfit because it was the only…

— 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

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

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

— Alan Stern