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People dig exploration.
People know a planet when they see one, and I think that's a pretty darn good test, in fact, for planethood.
Pluto and its brethren are the most populous class of planets in our solar system.
Pluto has a very interesting history, and there is a lot of work that we need to do to understand this very complicated place.
Pluto has strong atmospheric cycles: it snows on the surface; the snows sublimate and go back into the atmosphere each 248 year orbit.
Pluto is as far across as Manhattan to Miami, but its atmosphere is bigger than the Earth's.
Pluto is showing us a diversity of landforms and complexity of processes that rival anything we've seen in the solar system.
Pluto is still active four and a half billion years into its history. It was expected that small planets like Pluto would cool off long ago and not still be showing geological activity. Pluto is, in fact, showing numerous examples of geological activity on a massive scale across the planet.
Pluto is the new Mars.
Science doesn't work by voting. Did people vote on the theory of relativity? No! It's either right or it's wrong. Do we vote on whether genetics is a good theory or not? Of course not.
Science is really about individual experts reaching a consensus.
That so many binary or quasi-binary KBOs exist came as a real surprise to the research community.
The basic story for Golden Spike is that we discovered a way to create do-it-yourself Apollo programs for other countries.
The big lesson of planetary science is when you do a first reconnaissance of a new kind of object, you should expect the unexpected.
The costs of badly-run NASA projects are paid for with cutbacks or delays in NASA projects that didn't go over budget. Hence the guilty are rewarded and the innocent are punished.
The first mission to Mars did not expect to find craters and river valleys, and yet they did. The first mission to Jupiter didn't expect to find ocean worlds and volcano worlds, but they did.
The Kuiper Belt is the largest mapped structure in our planetary system, three times as big as all the territory from the sun out to Neptune's orbit.
The Kuiper belt region, which I call the third zone because it lies beyond the rocky terrestrial planets and beyond the giant planets, is a bizarre frontier.
The New Horizons Pluto mission will be the first mission to a binary object and will help us understand everything from the origin of Earth's moon to the physics of mass transfer between binary stars.
The Pluto system is much more complex than I had expected.
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