The New Horizons Pluto Kuiper Belt mission: An overview with historical context

Space Science Reviews

Volumn 140, Issue 1-4, 2008, Pages 3-21

  Stern, S Alan ^a  

^a NASA HEADQUARTERS   (United States)

Author keywords

Kuiper belt; Mission; New Horizons; Pluto

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMY; DUST; EARTH (PLANET); INTERPLANETARY FLIGHT; INTERPLANETARY SPACECRAFT; NASA; PLANETS; SATELLITES; SOLAR ENERGY; SOLAR EQUIPMENT; SPACECRAFT; SPACECRAFT INSTRUMENTS;

APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORIES; DUST DENSITIES; HOPKINS; IMPACTOR; JUPITER; KUIPER BELT; KUIPER BELT OBJECTS; MISSION; NASA MISSIONS; NEPTUNE; NEW CLASSES; NEW HORIZONS; NUCLEAR POWER SOURCES; OUTER PLANETS; OUTER SOLAR SYSTEMS; PLANETARY SCIENCES; PLUTO; RADIO SCIENCES; SATELLITE SYSTEMS; SCIENTIFIC EXPLORATIONS; SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS; SIZE CLASSES; SMALL PLANETS; SOUTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTES; UNIVERSITY STUDENTS; WATERSHED DEVELOPMENTS;

SOLAR SYSTEM;

EID: 57649227512     PISSN: 00386308     EISSN: 15729672     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11214-007-9295-y     Document Type: Article

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