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Styx Meet Scientist That Discovered Pluto's Moon Styx

07/03/2015
. (ABC) The members of the rock band Styx met with members of NASA's New Horizons team on Wednesday, including the scientist that discovered the band's namesake moon of Pluto in 2012.

We were sent these details: The meeting took place at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, MD, mission operations center for New Horizons.

The unmanned New Horizons spacecraft is on final approach to Pluto and its moons, just days away from a historic July 14 flyby that will return the first images of the mysterious dwarf planet.

STYX's Tommy Shaw (vocals, guitar), Lawrence Gowan (vocals, keyboards), and Todd Sucherman (drums) were treated to a tour of New Horizons mission control from mission operations manager Alice Bowman.

Principal investigator Alan Stern wowed the trio with the latest images from New Horizons, while Stern and dozens of project members gathered at APL's main auditorium for a group photo as the band's hit "Come Sail Away" hung in the air. Read more here.

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