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Member Since 1986
Alan Alan Stern
Scientist, Southwest Research Institute Boulder
Dr. Alan Stern is planetary scientist, a former NASA Science Mission Directorate Associate Administrator, a former board chair of the Commercial Space flight Federation, and a current member of the National Science Board. In 2020, NASA selected Dr. Stern to fly the first NASA-funded researcher aboard a Virgin Galactic suborbital space mission. He has been on 29 NASA and ESA space science mission teams, 14 of which he played a principal investigator (PI) role, including the nearly $1B New Horizon
Professional Experience
Southwest Research Institute Boulder
Scientist
1991 - Present
Education
Doctorate
1989
Honors & Awards
Publications
Snow Crash: Compaction Craters on (486958) Arrokoth and Other Small KBOs, With Implications
Evidence from Arrokoth and comets strongly suggests a very low density for this and similar small Kuiper belt objects. Plausible compositions imply...
July 06, 2022
Collisions of Small Kuiper Belt Objects With (486958) Arroko...
December 10, 2021
Pluto's Antipodal Terrains Imply a Thick Subsurface Ocean an...
January 26, 2021
Charon: A Brief History of Tides
July 06, 2020
AGU Abstracts
Solar Wind in the Outer Heliosphere
THE PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE OF HELIOPHYSICS THROUGH IN SITU OBSERVATIONS OF THE OUTER HELIOSPHERE AND THE INTERSTELLAR MEDIUM II ORAL
spa-solar and heliospheric physics | 15 december 2023
Heather A. Elliott, John D. Richardson, Tae K. Kim...
Different source regions on the Sun emit solar wind parcels with different speeds. The fastest wind originates in large coronal holes. Smaller coronal...
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Bridging the Energy Gap: Solar Wind Data from PEPSSI and SWAP on New Horizons
THE PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE OF HELIOPHYSICS THROUGH IN SITU OBSERVATIONS OF THE OUTER HELIOSPHERE AND THE INTERSTELLAR MEDIUM II ORAL
spa-solar and heliospheric physics | 15 december 2023
Ralph L. McNutt, David J. McComas, Matthew E. Hill...
The New Horizons spacecraft, launched in 2006, continues to return unprecedented charged particle data from the outer heliosphere. The Pluto Energetic...
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Heating of Energetic Pickup Ions in the Supersonic Solar Wind Region by Shock Waves: Observations and Modeling
THE PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE OF HELIOPHYSICS THROUGH IN SITU OBSERVATIONS OF THE OUTER HELIOSPHERE AND THE INTERSTELLAR MEDIUM I POSTER
spa-solar and heliospheric physics | 14 december 2023
Parisa Mostafavi, Gary P. Zank, Matthew E. Hill, M...
The outer heliosphere is a highly dynamic region that is profoundly influenced by the presence of nonthermal energetic pickup ions (PUIs). These PUIs,...
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