50 light years from Earth, there is a 2,600-mile-long…

Americans who read the papers or watch Jay Leno have been aware for some time now that there is a slim but real possibility…

— Rusty Schweickart

“Outside the port, the slashed rock of the unnamed asteroid tumbled and spun in dynamics known only to the gods of chaos mathematics.”

— Dan Simmons

It's much more likely that an asteroid will strike the Earth and annihilate life as we know it than AI will turn evil.

— Oren Etzioni

What happens if a big asteroid hits Earth ? Judging from realistic simulations involving a sledge hammer and a common laboratory frog, we can…

— Anonymous

If we found a hazardous asteroid, we could nudge it out of the way.

— Carrie Nugent

Imagine a giant asteroid on a direct collision course with Earth. That is the equivalent of what we face now [with climate change], yet…

— James Hansen

I've seen Australia and I've lived on an asteroid and I'd take the asteroid.

— Orson Scott Card

Lots of science fiction deals with distant times and places. Intrepid prospectors in the Asteroid Belt. Interstellar epics. Galactic empires. Trips to the remote…

— Edward M. Lerner

And you know, talk about something else is falling from the sky. And that is an asteroid. What's coming our way? Is this an…

— Deborah Feyerick

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

I only hope that we shall not wait to adopt the program until after our astronomers have reported a new and unsuspected asteroid moving…

— Wernher von Braun

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

“The world’s refusal to leave me out of its activities made me consider its destruction. Bring on the wave. Please, the asteroid.”

— Adam Nevill

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

I don't want to be the embarrassment of the galaxy to have had the power to deflect an asteroid, and then not and end…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson