Astronomers are using every technique at their disposal to discover and study asteroids. — Carrie Nugent Copy Share Image
I love studying asteroids because they are relatively simple, just rocks in space. They can be understood with physics and described with… — Carrie Nugent Copy Share Image
People have discovered asteroids in the Main Belt that outgas like comets, and things on cometary orbits that no longer outgas -… — Carrie Nugent Copy Share Image
I think Dawn has done an amazing job showing that asteroids aren't just hunks of rock. They're worlds - they're places an… — Carrie Nugent Copy Share Image
We've actually named asteroids for other famous women in history, like Rosa Parks, Harriet Tubman, and Sojourner Truth. But it's really this… — Carrie Nugent Copy Share Image
Back in the day, I've heard, particularly with the near-Earth asteroids, there were some asteroid hunters that knew the names of every… — Carrie Nugent Copy Share Image
The basic method to find asteroids hasn't changed much in hundreds of years. So asteroids in a telescope look just like stars… — Carrie Nugent Copy Share Image
The best thing to do is to study these asteroids so we know the range of parameters we would have to deal… — Carrie Nugent Copy Share Image
If you were to stand on an asteroid in the main belt of asteroids between Mars and Jupiter in our solar system,… — Carrie Nugent Copy Share Image
On the whole, asteroids tend to leave Earth alone. And day to day, there really isn't cause for most people to give… — Carrie Nugent Copy Share Image
There are physical bodies, physical worlds that astronauts could visit, that we haven't found yet. Especially, there's these close approaches of asteroids.… — Carrie Nugent Copy Share Image
It has only been within my lifetime that asteroids have been considered a credible threat to our planet. And since then, there's… — Carrie Nugent Copy Share Image
I think the public perception about asteroids is that they're kind of metaphors for acts of God, the fact that we have… — Carrie Nugent Copy Share Image
There are all these interesting rules about asteroid nomenclature. Once you discover it, you have the right to name it, but there's a catch. — Carrie Nugent Copy Share
NEOWISE needed a cryogen coolant to keep its sensors cool, and that ran out. — Carrie Nugent Copy Share
We've actually named asteroids for other famous women in history, like Rosa Parks, Harriet Tubman, and Sojourner Truth. But it's really this Malala one… — Carrie Nugent Copy Share
An asteroid impact in the worst case scenario is a terrifying thing. It seems very uncontrollable: in popular culture, it's often a metaphor for… — Carrie Nugent Copy Share
Back in the day, I've heard, particularly with the near-Earth asteroids, there were some asteroid hunters that knew the names of every one. — Carrie Nugent Copy Share
Certainly what happened to the dinosaurs was not good - that was a terrible day for the dinosaurs, very sad. But I have to… — Carrie Nugent Copy Share
The best thing to do is to study these asteroids so we know the range of parameters we would have to deal with and… — Carrie Nugent Copy Share
Changing the asteroid's velocity changes the time when the asteroid crosses Earth's orbit. After all, just because it crosses Earth's path doesn't mean there… — Carrie Nugent Copy Share
One of the reasons NEOWISE is so valuable is that it sees the sky in the thermal infrared. That means that instead of seeing… — Carrie Nugent Copy Share
I think the public perception about asteroids is that they're kind of metaphors for acts of God, the fact that we have no control… — Carrie Nugent Copy Share
There are physical bodies, physical worlds that astronauts could visit, that we haven't found yet. Especially, there's these close approaches of asteroids. They pass… — Carrie Nugent Copy Share
Becoming a scientist is a long journey, and at every step, I found projects that were exciting, motivating me to continue. My path was… — Carrie Nugent Copy Share
Most astronomical work has to do with things that are very, very far away and don't affect our lives very much. — Carrie Nugent Copy Share
NEOCam wouldn't need cryogen, and it would also be able to see entirely new areas of space. It can scan the sky in a… — Carrie Nugent Copy Share
