Quotes About Alan Stern

That so many binary or quasi-binary KBOs exist came as a real surprise to the research community.

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 attributes.

I'm the one who originally coined the term 'dwarf planet,' back in the nineteen-nineties.

Are governments the only entities that can build human spacecraft? No - actually, every human spacecraft ever built for NASA was built by private industry.

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 of planethood.