“Pluto is so unlike any planet we've ever visited. It's this strange little duck, sitting out there, this mixture of rock and ice but with an atmosphere. There is so much to learn about this planet.”
Bill Gibson
“This is in a real sense the capstone of the initial missions to explore the planets. Pluto, its moons and this part of the solar system are such mysteries that New Horizons will rewrite all of the textbooks.”
Alan Stern
“Such strains as would have won the ear / Of Pluto, to have quite set free / His half-regained Eurydice.”
John Milton
“I don't worry about it, ... I just worked with Neil Jordan on 'Breakfast On Pluto,' where I play an Irish transvestite singer in a London cabaret.'”
Cillian Murphy
“This is a whole new chapter in the Pluto story.”
“The Kuiper Belt is the largest structure in the solar system. We used to think Pluto was a misfit.”
“We know of 17 objects that could be called planets, most of which are ice dwarfs. So Pluto is typical of what is probably the most populous type of planet in our solar system. It probably mimics other Kuiper Belt objects.”
