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

~Alan Stern

Topics: Anything Complexity Diversity Pluto Processes Rival Seen Showing Solar Solar System System Us

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Pluto is as far across as Manhattan to Miami, but its atmosphere is bigger than the Earth's.

~Alan Stern

Topics: Across Atmosphere Bigger Earth Far Manhattan Miami Pluto Than

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A river is a river, independent of whether there are other rivers nearby. In science, we call things what they are based on their attributes, not what they're next to.

~Alan Stern

Topics: Attributes Based Call Independent Nearby Next Other River Rivers Science Things Whether

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Just because Pluto or comets aren't as big as Jupiter doesn't mean they are not scientifically important - indeed, just the reverse is often true. Sometimes, great things come in small packages.

~Alan Stern

Topics: Because Big Come Great Great Things Important Indeed Jupiter Just Just Because Mean Often Packages Pluto Reverse Scientifically Small Sometimes Things True

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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.

~Alan Stern

Topics: Did Expect Find First Jupiter Mars Mission Ocean River Valleys Volcano Worlds

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When we first sent missions to Jupiter, no one expected to find moons that would have active volcanoes. And I could go down a long list of how often I've been surprised by the richness of nature.

~Alan Stern

Topics: Active Been Could Down Expected Find First Go How Jupiter List Long Long List Missions Nature Often Richness Sent Surprised Would

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To keep everyone invested in your vision, you have to back up a little bit and really analyze who the different stakeholders are and what they individually respond to.

~Alan Stern

Topics: Analyze Back Back Up Bit Different Everyone Individually Invested Keep Little Little Bit Really Respond Stakeholders Up Vision Who You Your

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We're in the space exploration business, and the outer solar system is a wild, wooly place. We haven't explored it very well.

~Alan Stern

Topics: Business Exploration Explored Outer Place Solar Solar System Space Space Exploration System Very Well Wild

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One thing scientists do is to find order among a large number of facts, and one way to do that across fields as diverse as biology, geology, physics and astronomy is through classification.

~Alan Stern

Topics: Across Among Astronomy Biology Classification Diverse Facts Fields Find Geology Large Large Number Number One Thing One Way Order Physics Scientists Thing Through Way

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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

Topics: Able Because Beyond Call Clear Earth Neptune Out Planet Put You Zone

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Scientist

Born: November 22nd, 1957

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