"We really just didn't realize the diversity of planetary types in our solar system. Pluto looked like a misfit because it was the only one we saw. And just as a Chihuahua is still a dog, these ice dwarfs are still planetary bodies. They're large enough to make themselves round by self gravity, and they surely pass the test of planethood."

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Alan Stern is an American planetary scientist and aerospace engineer best known as principal investigator of NASA"s New Horizons mission to Pluto.

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