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The New Horizons Pluto Kuiper belt Mission: An Overview with Historical Context
S. Alan Stern
NASA's New Horizons (NH) Pluto-Kuiper belt (PKB) mission was launched on 19 January 2006 on a Jupiter Gravity Assist (JGA) trajectory toward the Pluto system for a 14 July 2015 clo…
ALICE: The Ultraviolet Imaging Spectrograph aboard the New Horizons Pluto-Kuiper Belt Mission
S. Alan Stern, David C. Slater, John Scherrer +8
The New Horizons ALICE instrument is a lightweight (4.4 kg), low-power (4.4 Watt) imaging spectrograph aboard the New Horizons mission to Pluto/Charon and the Kuiper Belt. Its prim…
New Horizons: Anticipated Scientific Investigations at the Pluto System
Leslie A. Young, S. Alan Stern, Harold A. Weaver +24
The New Horizons spacecraft will achieve a wide range of measurement objectives at the Pluto system, including color and panchromatic maps, 1.25-2.50 micron spectral images for stu…
Overview of the New Horizons Science Payload
H. A. Weaver, W. C. Gibson, M. B. Tapley +2
The New Horizons mission was launched on 2006 January 19, and the spacecraft is heading for a flyby encounter with the Pluto system in the summer of 2015. The challenges associated…
Ultraviolet Spectroscopy of Comet 9P/Tempel 1 with Alice/Rosetta during the Deep Impact Encounter
Paul D. Feldman, S. Alan Stern, Andrew J. Steffl +5
We report on spectroscopic observations of periodic comet 9P/Tempel 1 by the Alice ultraviolet spectrograph on the Rosetta spacecraft in conjunction with NASA's Deep Impact mission…
First Constraints on Rings in the Pluto System
A. J. Steffl, S. A. Stern
Simple theoretical calculations have suggested that small body impacts onto Pluto's newly discovered small satellites, Nix and Hydra, are capable of generating time-variable rings…