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Related: About this forumScientists want to put their stamp on Pluto
Two decades ago, the Postal Service issued a series of stamps depicting Earth, its moon, and the spacecraft sent to explore each of the other planets in the solar system.
The 10th stamp, featuring tiny, distant Pluto, was the only one to read not yet explored.
Those three words have annoyed Alan Stern ever since. Stern, an associate vice president and scientist at Southwest Research Institute, was making plans at the time for what would become the New Horizons mission to Pluto, which launched in 2006.
Now Stern, principal investigator of the mission, along with astronomer and artist Dan Durda, is trying to set the record straight. The scientists have designed a new stamp for Pluto, and they have launched a petition drive to get the post office to issue it when New Horizons reaches the dwarf planet in 2015.
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Kurmudgeon
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TexasTowelie
(112,174 posts)Besides, who wants to see a picture of Uranus?
--No insult actually intended, I couldn't pass up the one-liner.
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)HopeHoops
(47,675 posts)I'd buy that stamp.