Cosmos Quote by Arthur C. Clarke

Meteors are not needed less than mountains: shine, perishing republic.

— Robinson Jeffers

“Meteorites are not just in the sky; get down on the subway of a city, and you will find people who do not know…

— Mehmet Murat ildan

Seventy percent of Earth's surface is water and over 99 percent is uninhabited, so you would expect nearly all impactors to hit either the…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Like prospecting in the 19th century, reconnaissance of the asteroids would of necessity take place in an arena where trouble is likely and help…

— Seth Shostak

It was not an asteroid or comet, because it would have killed everything.

— Robert T. Bakker

“Asteroids are craggy chunks of rock. Comets are balls of dirt, ice, and frozen gases. And meteors are, quite simply, whatever falls through and…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

On the announcement that signs of extra terrestrial life were found in a meteorite, August 6, 1996 A hundred years from now Bob Dole's…

— Richard E. Berendzen

It is of great importance to note these meteors, even the small ones, as very little is yet known of them; and every observation,…

— William John Wills

In 1908, there was a persuasive demonstration of the power of high-speed, low-mass asteroids in rural Siberia. The Tunguska impactor iced millions of pine…

— Seth Shostak

“[ Asteroids are ] the vermin of the skies. [ Asteroids can block objects of interest on astronomical photographs .]”

— Walter Baade

"A meteor hits planet Earth" - that's a story idea but that doesn't give me any indication of what the character is.

— Steven Soderbergh

The nice thing about asteroids is that once you've found them, and once you have a good solid orbit on them, you can predict…

— Rusty Schweickart