Sol Alan Stern (born November 22, 1957) is an American engineer, planetary scientist and space tourist. He is the principal investigator of the New Horizons mission to Pluto and the Chief Scientist at Moon Express.[4][5]
Stern has been involved in 24 suborbital, orbital, and planetary space missions, including eight for which he was the mission principal investigator. One of his projects was the Southwest Ultraviolet Imaging System, an instrument which flew on two space shuttle missions, STS-85 in 1997 and STS-93 in 1999.[6][7]
Stern has also developed eight scientific instruments for planetary and near-space research missions and has been a guest observer on numerous NASA satellite observatories, including the International Ultraviolet Explorer, the Hubble Space Telescope, the International Infrared Observer and the Extreme Ultraviolet Observer. Stern was executive director of the Southwest Research Institute's Space Science and Engineering Division until becoming Associate Administrator of NASA's Science Mission Directorate in 2007. He resigned from that position after nearly a year.
His research has focused on studies of our solar system's Kuiper belt and Oort cloud, comets, the satellites of the outer planets, Pluto, and the search for evidence of planetary systems around other stars. He has also worked on spacecraft rendezvous theory, terrestrial polar mesospheric clouds, galactic astrophysics, and studies of tenuous satellite atmospheres, including the atmosphere of the Moon.
Sol AlanStern (born November 22, 1957) is an American engineer, planetary scientist and space tourist. He is the principal investigator of the New Horizons...
presented to the 2000 IAU general assembly by the planetary scientists AlanStern and Harold F. Levison. The authors used several similar phrases as they...
(APL) and the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), with a team led by AlanStern, the spacecraft was launched in 2006 with the primary mission to perform...
dwarf planets. The term dwarf planet was coined by planetary scientist AlanStern as part of a three-way categorization of planetary-mass objects in the...
The Leonard N. Stern School of Business (also NYU Stern, Stern School of Business, or simply Stern) is the business school of New York University, a private...
ISBN 978-1534960749 Stern, S A and Tholen, D J (1997), Pluto and Charon, University of Arizona Press ISBN 978-0816518401 Stern, Alan; Grinspoon, David (2018)...
space-faring society, namely that of human beings. Planetary scientist AlanStern put forward the idea that there could be a number of worlds with subsurface...
accepted. In May 1989, a group of scientists and engineers, including AlanStern and Fran Bagenal, formed an alliance called the "Pluto Underground". It...
Epic First Mission to Pluto is a book by American planetary scientist AlanStern and astrobiologist and non-fiction writer David Grinspoon, published in...
orbit KBOs in 10–20 years or less. New Horizons Principal Investigator AlanStern has informally suggested missions that would flyby the planets Uranus...
of a planet includes that which was put forth by planetary scientists AlanStern and Harold Levison in 2002. The pair proposed the following rules to determine...
larger than the more massive Eris. A number of astronomers, most notably AlanStern, the head of NASA's New Horizons mission to Pluto, contend that the IAU's...
and students from the California Institute of Technology and, later, AlanStern and other scientists from the Pluto 350 project. While the project was...
Voyager Mission. Penguin Publishing Group. p. 94. ISBN 978-0-698-18615-6. AlanStern (23 June 2014). "The PI's Perspective: What If Voyager Had Explored Pluto...
particular AlanStern, head of NASA's New Horizons mission to Pluto, have circulated a petition among astronomers to alter the definition. Stern's claim is...
Archived from the original on 2021-03-06. Retrieved 2020-10-11. S. AlanStern; Paul R. Weissman (2001). "Rapid collisional evolution of comets during...
Stern Jarger and Arlen Stern, the brother in-law of John Jarger, as well as the Uncle of Jeremy Jaeger, Lindsay Jarger, and AlanStern. Prior to his death...
which exploded during launch. The principal scientist for the mission was AlanStern. This autonomous sub-satellite was designed by the University of Colorado...
Video 2005 Straight Flush Richard Michael Crafton Short 2005 Rumor Has It… Patriarch Uncredited 2008 Bald Mr. AlanStern 2010 Barry Munday Father Walsh...
and its ambitions were presented. Golden Spike was founded in 2010 by AlanStern, former NASA associate administrator for science (2007-2008), and Gerry...
New Horizons: Inside the Epic First Mission to Pluto, co-authored with AlanStern. He is adjunct professor of Astrophysical and Planetary Science at the...
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