Alan Stern and a Triumph at Pluto

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🗓️ 25 October 2016

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Alan Stern of the New Horizons mission to Pluto and beyond was in Pasadena for the annual meeting of the American Astronomical Society’s Division for Planetary Sciences. He joined Mat Kaplan for a very special conversation down the street at Planetary Society HQ.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Alan Stern and a Triumph at Pluto this week on planetary radio.
0:07.0	Welcome, I'm a Kaplan of the Planetary Society with more of the Human Adventure
0:17.1	across our Solar System and beyond. Join me at the annual meeting of the
0:21.5	American Astronomical Society's Division for Planetary Sciences
0:26.0	and a special conversation with the human being who led the team that took humanity to Pluto.
0:32.3	As always, Alan Stern has much more to share.
0:35.1	We'll also hear Bill Nye give the Cosmos Award to Alan,
0:39.1	and we'll wrap things up with Bruce Betts
0:41.0	outside the DPS meeting under the night sky.
0:44.9	The first plan of recession has just ended at DPS for 2016 here at the Pasadena Convention
0:50.6	Center.
0:51.6	I'm at a Planetary Society table right across in the exhibits
0:55.6	and the poster room. People are still flooding in here to get us underway though.
1:00.0	I'm joined by Emily Lockwala, our senior editor and planetary evangelists.
1:04.8	Welcome.
1:05.8	Thank you.
1:06.8	Why DPS?
1:07.8	Why is this something Emily that you look forward to so much every year?
1:11.5	Well, DPS is a meeting.
1:13.0	It's the Division for Planetary Sciences of the American Astronomical Society.
1:17.2	So it's an astronomy-focused planetary science meeting.
1:20.6	We have a lot of people here who track small faint objects, asteroids and comets, centaurs and
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