People have discovered asteroids in the Main Belt that…

Nature, to each allots his proper Sphere, But, that forsaken, we like Comets err: Toss'd thro' the Void, by some rude Shock we're broke,…

— William Congreve

“If you like comets, you should like fallen angels. The fallen angels were the ones unafraid to love, unafraid to fall, ready to burn.”

— C. JoyBell C

Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds.

— Charles Caleb Colton

I wanted to be one of those people who have streaks to maintain, who scorch the ground with their intensity. But for now, at…

— John Green

I think Dawn has done an amazing job showing that asteroids aren't just hunks of rock. They're worlds - they're places an astronaut can…

— Carrie Nugent

I love studying asteroids because they are relatively simple, just rocks in space. They can be understood with physics and described with elegant equations.…

— Carrie Nugent

It has only been within my lifetime that asteroids have been considered a credible threat to our planet. And since then, there's been a…

— Carrie Nugent

On the whole, asteroids tend to leave Earth alone. And day to day, there really isn't cause for most people to give them any…

— Carrie Nugent

If you were to stand on an asteroid in the main belt of asteroids between Mars and Jupiter in our solar system, you might…

— Carrie Nugent

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

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

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

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

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

Asteroids are our oldest and most numerous cosmic neighbors.

— Carrie Nugent