PLUTO: a novel way to think about risk
Channel: Risk Bites
Date: 2015-07-14

Pluto may be a former planet, but it's also a novel way to think about risk!

On July 14th 2015, a small spacecraft will buzz a former planet in the less fashionable outskirts of our solar system.  A lot of people will get excited by this, apparently thinking that the first close-up view of a lump of rock and ice in the history of the human race is a big deal.  

What they don't know is that PLUTO is also all about understanding risk:   

P: Probability
L: Latency
U: Uncertainty
T: Tradeoffs
O: Opportunity


FURTHER READING:

NASA New Horizons page: https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/newhorizons/main/index.html

New Horizons on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Horizons

11 mind-blowing facts about NASA's nuclear-powered mission to Pluto http://www.businessinsider.com/nasa-mission-to-pluto-2015-7

New Horizons flyby – New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/07/14/science/space/pluto-flyby.html?_r=0

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