--- title: "6 Near Earth Quotes by 6 authors" description: "Browse 6 Near Earth quotes by 6 authors. Discover the best Near Earth sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1c0/seth-shostak-2047_armageddon_consider-that-the-overwhelming-majority_373970.png" --- > [Consider that the overwhelming majority of those 40,000 near-Earth asteroids are small enough to fit on the parking lot at the mall.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seth-shostak/consider-that-the-overwhelming-majority-of-those-40-000-near-earth/) [Seth Shostak](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seth-shostak/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1c0/seth-shostak-2047_armageddon_consider-that-the-overwhelming-majority_373970.png) > [Just speaking for myself, I think the return of people to the Moon has a lot to offer for understanding the formation…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-stern/just-speaking-for-myself-i-think-the-return-of-people-to-the-moon-has/) [Alan Stern](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-stern/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b6e/alan-stern-5283_asteroids_just-speaking-for-myself-i-think-the-ret_770488.jpg) > [There are thousands of asteroids whose orbit in the Solar System crosses that of Earth. And we have a little acronym for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-degrasse-tyson/there-are-thousands-of-asteroids-whose-orbit-in-the-solar-system/) [Neil deGrasse Tyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-degrasse-tyson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/83a/neil-degrasse-tyson-143_advance_there-are-thousands-of-asteroids-whose-o_1120042.jpg) > [The hazards posed by Near-Earth Asteroids are assessed by Sentry, a computer system developed by the Near-Earth Objects Group at NASA's Jet…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brendan-i-koerner/the-hazards-posed-by-near-earth-asteroids-are-assessed-by-sentry-a/) [Brendan I. Koerner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brendan-i-koerner/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4c1/brendan-i-koerner-21170_calculate_the-hazards-posed-by-near-earth-asteroid_1850393.jpg) > [When we build our own colonies, we can do them in near-Earth vicinity, because people are going to want to come back…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeff-bezos/when-we-build-our-own-colonies-we-can-do-them-in-near-earth-vicinity/) [Jeff Bezos](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeff-bezos/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e54/jeff-bezos-1193_come_when-we-build-our-own-colonies-we-can-do_1972202.jpg) > [“Because Earth is like – it’s our parents’ house, and near-Earth is our first crappy apartment, and somewhere out there is New…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-strahan/because-earth-is-like-it-s-our-parents-house-and-near-earth-is-our/) [Jonathan Strahan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-strahan/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/780/jonathan-strahan-56104_earth_because-earth-is-like-it-s-our-parents-h_2635397.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/near-earth/#itemlist", "name": "Near Earth Quotes", "numberOfItems": 6, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Consider that the overwhelming majority of those 40,000 near-Earth asteroids are small enough to fit on the parking lot at the mall. 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