Looking ahead... New Horizons is racing away from the Sun at about a million miles a day to explore the planet Pluto and its satellite system in 2015, and hopefully one or more additional objects in the Kuiper Belt. Work continues on the Discovery Channel Telescope, a new 4.2 meter, wide-field telescope being built in Northern Arizona.
2008 – Busy with lots more work on transneptunian binary systems including Typhon and Echidna and the Pluto system. Bonny's new NSF grant is enabling her to do more linguistic field work in Africa, mostly in Namibia this year.
2007 – Hooray, I got tenure! Also, New Horizons got a gravity boost from the Jupiter system in February and March. Lots of interesting science is coming from that encounter, which also provided a valuable rehearsal for the real objective: the Pluto system. Also I've been working on mutual orbits of binary trans-neptunian objects such as Ceto and Phorcys, using the Hubble Space Telescope.
2006 – Determined preliminary orbits for Pluto's three moons with Marc Buie and did a paper on the distribution of carbon dioxide ice on the uranian moons Ariel, Umbriel, and Titania based on IRTF observations.