On today’s show we featured an interview with Alan Stern of the Southwest Research Institute, who is principal investigator on NASA’s New Horizons mission. He told us about a fourth, tiny moon orbiting Pluto—found last month by his team during observations in support of New Horizons, which will arrive at Pluto in 2015. Here’s an extended version of that interview.
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Kudos to Dr. Stern for this information and for repeated references to Pluto as a planet, which it is. Dwarf planets are a third class of solar system planets in addition to terrestrials and jovians and likely exist in exoplanet systems as well.
A fantastic interview! The questions asked by the interviewer as well as the answers given by Dr. Stern were clear, concise and illuminating. I strongly look forward to New Horizons’ arrival at the Pluto system!