Alan Stern | New Horizons at Ultima Thule! | NEAF Talks

Filmed April 2019

On 1 January 2019 the NASA New Horizons mission made the first exploration of a Kuiper Belt Object, 2014 MU69, informally known as Ultima Thule (UT). NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft, which made the first exploration of the Kuiper Belt dwarf planet Pluto and its system of moons on 14 July 2015, has now also made the first exploration of a primordial
planetary building block in the Kuiper Belt, on 1 January 2015. That object is known as 2014 MU69(henceforth MU69).This talk will summarize the New Horizons mission, the technical challenges of our just completed flyby, and its the major results from the first exploration of a Kuiper Belt Object.

Who is Alan Stern?
DR. S. ALAN STERN is a planetary scientist, space program executive, aerospace consultant, and author. In 2007 and 2008, Dr. Stern served as NASA’s chief of space and Earth science programs, directing a $4.4B organization with 93 separate flight missions and a program of over 3,000 research grants. Dr. Stern is the Principal Investigator (PI) of NASA’s $720M New Horizon’s Pluto-Kuiper Belt mission. Before receiving his doctorate in astrophysics from the University of Colorado in 1989, Dr. Stern completed two master’s degrees in aerospace engineering and atmospheric sciences. Dr. Stern also holds two undergraduate degrees in physics and astronomy from the University of Texas.

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