“Just as a Chihuahua is still a dog, these ice dwarfs are still planetary bodies. The misfit becomes the average. The Pluto-like objects are more typical in our solar system than the nearby planets we first knew.”
Alan Stern
“Just as a Chihuahua is still a dog, these ice dwarfs are still planetary bodies.”
“LRO, in all respects, is a unique and challenging planetary mission.”
Jim Watzin
“These are literally the building blocks of our planetary system.”
Don Brownlee
“This has been kind of a planetary alignment for cartooning.”
Matt Davies
“For planetary explorers like us, there is little that can compare to the sighting of activity on another solar system body. This has been a heart-stopper, and surely one of our most thrilling results.”
Carolyn Porco
“These are literally the building blocks of our planetary system. Personally, I feel a strong attachment to this thing and we should all feel a strong attachment to it because the fact is all the atoms in our bodies -- the carbon atoms and the oxygen, nitrogen, potassium and calcium and so forth -- all those atoms were in stardust rings ... before the solar system formed.”
