{"id":16093,"date":"2018-05-27T17:53:17","date_gmt":"2018-05-27T21:53:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=16093"},"modified":"2018-05-27T17:53:17","modified_gmt":"2018-05-27T21:53:17","slug":"video-alan-stern-and-david-grinspoon-talk-about-the-epic-first-mission-to-pluto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=16093","title":{"rendered":"Video: Alan Stern and David Grinspoon talk about the &#8220;Epic First Mission to Pluto&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alan_Stern\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dr. Alan Stern<\/a> (Southwest Research Inst) and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/David_Grinspoon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dr. David Grinspoon<\/a> (Planetary Science Inst) recently gave a public lecture on the <a href=\"http:\/\/pluto.jhuapl.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New Horizon\u00a0 mission<\/a> to Pluto and beyond:\u00a0<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>In July 2015, the New Horizons spacecraft flew by Pluto, revealing its surface to our view for the first time. In this program, Drs. Stern and Grinspoon give us an insider&#8217;s view of how this complex mission came to be and what it discovered at the edge of our solar system. Their new book (like the talk and with the same title) tells the full story of the mission, its ground-breaking discoveries at Pluto, and where it&#8217;s going next. Here is new science, straight from the source, with great insight into what it&#8217;s like to be part of a pioneering planetary mission.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SJ2lwXV6LrM?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Grinspoon and Stern have written a well-reviewed new book about the New Horizon project: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1250098963\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=1250098963&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=hobbyspace&amp;linkId=fd3f5c337753916b8ce81c0278a9a5b8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chasing New Horizons: Inside the Epic First Mission to Pluto<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=hobbyspace&amp;l=am2&amp;o=1&amp;a=1250098963\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/>.<\/p>\n<p>And the two have refuted the silly assertion that Pluto is not a planet:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/speaking-of-science\/wp\/2018\/05\/07\/yes-pluto-is-a-planet\/?noredirect=on&amp;utm_term=.5a0a8f8d60d3\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Why Pluto is a planet and many moons are, too &#8211; The Washington Post<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\" data-elm-loc=\"9\"><em>&#8230; the process for redefining planet was deeply flawed and widely criticized even by those who accepted the outcome. At the 2006 IAU conference, which was held in Prague, the few scientists remaining at the very end of the week-long meeting (less than 4 percent of the world\u2019s astronomers and even a smaller percentage of the world\u2019s planetary scientists) ratified a hastily drawn definition that contains obvious flaws. For one thing, it defines a planet as an object orbiting around our sun \u2014 thereby disqualifying the planets around other stars, ignoring the exoplanet revolution, and decreeing that essentially all the planets in the universe are not, in fact, planets.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\" data-elm-loc=\"10\"><em>Even within our solar system, the IAU scientists defined \u201cplanet\u201d in a strange way, declaring that if an orbiting world has \u201ccleared its zone,\u201d or thrown its weight around enough to eject all other nearby objects, it is a planet. Otherwise it is not. This criterion is imprecise and leaves many borderline cases, but what\u2019s worse is that they chose a definition that discounts the actual physical properties of a potential planet, electing instead to define \u201cplanet\u201d in terms of the other objects that are \u2014 or are not \u2014 orbiting nearby. This leads to many bizarre and absurd conclusions. For example, it would mean that Earth was not a planet for its first 500 million years of history, because it orbited among a swarm of debris until that time, and also that if you took Earth today and moved it somewhere else, say out to the asteroid belt, it would cease being a planet.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>See also\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencenews.org\/blog\/context\/pluto-demotion-ignores-astronomical-history?tgt=nr\">Pluto\u2019s demotion ignores astronomical history | Science News<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">====<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe style=\"width: 120px; height: 240px;\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;OneJS=1&amp;Operation=GetAdHtml&amp;MarketPlace=US&amp;source=ac&amp;ref=tf_til&amp;ad_type=product_link&amp;tracking_id=hobbyspace&amp;marketplace=amazon&amp;region=US&amp;placement=1250098963&amp;asins=1250098963&amp;linkId=06b5268baad8fe2fe8d39baba17fb36c&amp;show_border=true&amp;link_opens_in_new_window=true&amp;price_color=333333&amp;title_color=0066c0&amp;bg_color=ffffff\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"> <\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Alan Stern (Southwest Research Inst) and\u00a0Dr. David Grinspoon (Planetary Science Inst) recently gave a public lecture on the New Horizon\u00a0 mission to Pluto and beyond:\u00a0\u00a0 In July 2015, the New Horizons spacecraft flew by Pluto, revealing its surface to our view for the first time. In this program, Drs. Stern and Grinspoon give us &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=16093\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Video: Alan Stern and David Grinspoon talk about the &#8220;Epic First Mission to Pluto&#8221;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[97,13,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pluto","category-space-science","category-space-systems"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-4bz","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8668,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=8668","url_meta":{"origin":16093,"position":0},"title":"New Horizons Pluto mission panels on NASA TV","author":"TopSpacer","date":"August 25, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"There will be two live programs today on NASA TV dealing with\u00a0the New Horizons\u00a0\u00a0mission to Pluto: NASA TV to Air Events That Highlight Pluto-Bound Spacecraft\u00a0 Media and the public are invited to attend two events Monday, Aug. 25 from 1-3 p.m. EDT to learn more about the agency\u2019s New Horizons\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Pluto and beyond&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Pluto and beyond","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?cat=97"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":12442,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=12442","url_meta":{"origin":16093,"position":1},"title":"Audio: Update on space science news + The hunt for dark matter &#038; dark energy","author":"TopSpacer","date":"April 4, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Dr. David Grinspoon\u00a0of the\u00a0Planetary Science Institute\u00a0gives an interesting update on a number of recent space science developments including the sighting of a comet or asteroid hitting\u00a0Jupiter, icebergs on Pluto, seas on Charon, salt mounds\u00a0on Ceres, and gravity maps of\u00a0Mars:\u00a0John Batchelor Show -\u00a0\u00a0David Grinspoon, PSI. 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