The New Horizons Mission: Pluto and the Kuiper Belt Up-Close

Kelsi N Singer1, Alan Stern2, Jeffrey M Moore3, John R Spencer1, William B McKinnon4, Oliver L White5, Paul Schenk6, Simon Porter7, Anne Verbiscer8, Alex H Parker7, Marc W Buie1, Mark Showalter9, Orkan M Umurhan9, Leslie A Young1, Richard P Binzel10,11, William M Grundy12, Silvia Protopapa7, Harold A Weaver Jr13, Catherine Olkin14, Kimberly Ennico Smith15, Joel Wm Parker1 and The New Horizons Science Team, (1)Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)Southwest Research Institute San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, United States, (3)NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, United States, (4)Washington Univ, Saint Louis, MO, United States, (5)SETI Institute Mountain View, Mountain View, United States, (6)Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston, TX, United States, (7)Southwest Research Institute Boulder, Boulder, United States, (8)University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, United States, (9)SETI Institute Mountain View, Mountain View, CA, United States, (10)MIT Rm 54-410, Cambridge, MA, United States, (11)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States, (12)Lowell Observatory, Flagstaff, AZ, United States, (13)The Johns Hopkins University, Laurel, MD, United States, (14)Southwest Research Institute Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (15)NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States