“Hey, Kyle. You know what I can hit?" "What?" "Asteroid traveling at seventy-one kilometers per second. And if I can't, you're dead.” — Katie Kennedy Copy Share Image
And you know, talk about something else is falling from the sky. And that is an asteroid. What's coming our way? Is… — Deborah Feyerick Copy Share Image
We need to take command of the solar system to gain that wealth, and to escape the sea of paper our government… — Larry Niven Copy Share Image
An asteroid could hit us at any moment. This is not - and also, the most successful kind of life on this… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
Newsreader: A huge asteroid could destroy Earth! And by coincidence, that's the subject of tonight's miniseries. Dogbert: In science, researchers proved that… — Scott Adams 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… — Carrie Nugent Copy Share Image
If an asteroid is coming toward you, you don't have to blow it up. You just have to slow it down long… — Emo Philips Copy Share Image
I don't want to be the embarrassment of the galaxy to have had the power to deflect an asteroid, and then not… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The Moon is a ball of left-over debris from a cosmic collision that took place more than four billion years ago. A… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
“Never in my life had I wished so hard for a thousand-foot-wide asteroid to change its course to hit someone directly in… — Camilla Monk Copy Share Image
“Outside the port, the slashed rock of the unnamed asteroid tumbled and spun in dynamics known only to the gods of chaos… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
Asteroid detection, tracking, and defense of our planet is something that NASA, its interagency partners, and the global community take very seriously. — John M. Grunsfeld Copy Share Image
An asteroid impact is a preventable natural disaster. It's in part preventable because we have the technology, and it's in part preventable… — Carrie Nugent Copy Share Image