Unveiling Pluto, with Alan Stern and Neil deGrasse Tyson

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🗓️ 15 July 2016

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Two prominent voices in the “Planet vs. Dwarf Planet” debate, Alan Stern and Neil Tyson, discuss what New Horizons has uncovered about our favorite Kuiper Belt object. In studio, astrobiologist Dr. David Grinspoon and Chuck Nice join the fun.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Star Talk.
0:04.0	Your place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.
0:09.0	Star Talk begins right now.
0:13.0	This is Star Talk.
0:16.0	And I'm your host, Neil deGrasse Tyson, your personal astrophysicist.
0:20.0	And I'm also the director of New York City's Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History.
0:25.0	My co-host todays! Chuck Nice!
0:27.0	Yes!
0:28.0	Good! Got your NASA uniform on.
0:30.0	That is correct, Sarah. I'm wearing a NASA shirt.
0:32.0	NASA T-shirt? Very good. Trying to get good with me. You don't need to do that. I love you no matter what.
0:37.0	I appreciate it, man. I really do.
0:39.0	Actually, when I cover, when I'm wearing a shirt over top of this shirt, and I have to make sure that the end stays visible.
0:46.0	Otherwise, it looks like NASA.
0:49.0	Which, for some reason, makes sense when I wear it!
0:53.0	Today, we're talking about Pluto and the farthest reaches of our solar system.
0:59.0	A lot of stuff out there. Featuring my interview with Mr. Pluto himself, Alan Stern.
1:04.0	Yes.
1:05.0	He's a friend and colleague. He's the principal investigator, the PI of NASA's New Horizons mission to Pluto.
1:11.0	He's also a planetary scientist at the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado.
1:16.0	It's no Hayden Planetarium, I'll tell you that.
1:19.0	Just saying.
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