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Join us for a discussion with Dr. Alan Stern, Principal Investigator of the New Horizons mission to Pluto, and hear about the mission and its discoveries from the man who made it happen. New Horizons is headed towards its next target, a smaller object in the Kuiper Belt, the region of space beyond Neptune that was also, as it turns out, the birthplace of comet 67\/P Churyomov-Gerasimenko. Yep, that’s the comet that the ESA mission Rosetta is studying, and none other than Alan Stern is the P.I. of the ultraviolet spectrometer on that mission. It’s all about the Kuiper Belt and missions to explore it with Alan Stern on this episode of Walkabout the Galaxy.<\/p>\n

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Learn more about New Horizons and Pluto here<\/a> and about Rosetta and Comet 67\/P here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Join us for a discussion with Dr. Alan Stern, Principal Investigator of the New Horizons mission to Pluto, and hear about the mission and its discoveries from the man who made it happen. New Horizons…<\/p>\n

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