Keith’s note: Yesterday I posted a Twitter response to a tweet my New Horizons mission PI Alan Stern. This is what it originally looked like in case it is deleted. […]
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Pluto Huggers Are Upset By The Use Of The Term "Planet 9"
Keith’s note: (Sigh) This had to happen. Now there are planetary scientists who actually think that use of the term “Planet 9” is “insensitive” – and they even have a […]
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How NASA PIs Should Not Interact With Taxpayers
Keith’s note: Few people ever get a chance to fly something they helped to design in space. Even fewer people get to be a NASA mission Principal investigator. These missions […]
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About Those Decadal Surveys …
#math #physics #astronomy This looks very interesting. I do wonder if Pluto was still considered to be a planet when they started, and if it would have had a much […]
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Where Pluto's Surface Feature Names Originated
Pluto Features Given First Official Names, IAU “Tenzing Montes and Hillary Montes are mountain ranges honouring Tenzing Norgay (1914-1986) and Sir Edmund Hillary (1919-2008), the Indian/Nepali Sherpa and New Zealand […]
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Planet 9 Sour Grapes
Keith’s note: One planetary scientist is doing a systematic search for a large planet that may be lurking in the outermost reaches of our solar system. Meanwhile another planetary scientist […]
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Silly Pluto Food Fights Continue
A new definition would add 102 planets to our solar system — including Pluto, Washington Post “[Alan Stern] scoffed at Pluto’s new classification, “dwarf planet” — “How can an adjective […]
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Confusion Over Naming of Features on Pluto
Keith’s note: There as a live Facebook webcast today about the New Horizons mission. I submitted this question which was asked of New Horizons PI Alan Stern: “A variety of […]
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Why Hasn't New Horizons Submitted Feature Names to IAU Yet?
.@alanstern says New Horizons team has not submitted Pluto nomenclature suggestions to IAU yet. "Informal names" to continue. #DPSEPSC — Alexandra Witze (@alexwitze) October 18, 2016 By stalling they get […]
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Pluto Has A Stamp But It's Not Sold With "Our Planets" Stamps
New stamps honoring #NASA planetary discoveries, including #PlutoFlyby, debut May 31. https://t.co/JOwgt1Wa00 pic.twitter.com/tHeKQ1EYJd — NASA New Horizons (@NASANewHorizons) May 24, 2016