About the Author

S. Alan Stern is the New Horizons Mission Principal Investigator and lead editor of The Pluto System After New Horizons.

Richard P. Binzel, a New Horizons co-investigator, is a professor of planetary science and joint professor of aerospace engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

William M. Grundy, a New Horizons co-investigator, is a planetary scientist at Lowell Observatory.

Jeffrey M. Moore, a New Horizons co-investigator, is a research scientist at NASA Ames Research Center.

Leslie A. Young, a New Horizons co-investigator, is a planetary scientist at Southwest Research Institute, serving as deputy project scientist for the New Horizons mission.