If we found a hazardous asteroid, we could nudge it out of the way. — Carrie Nugent Asteroid Copy Share Image
NEOWISE needed a cryogen coolant to keep its sensors cool, and that ran out. — Carrie Nugent Cool Copy Share Image
Most astronomical work has to do with things that are very, very far away and don't affect our lives very much. — Carrie Nugent Affect Copy Share Image
Changing the asteroid's velocity changes the time when the asteroid crosses Earth's orbit. After all, just because it crosses Earth's path doesn't… — Carrie Nugent Earth 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 Asteroid Copy Share Image
I think that, a lot of times, people have this idea that the solar system is entirely explored, that we have sent… — Carrie Nugent Beautiful Copy Share Image
By searching the sky now, me and other asteroid hunters hope to give us the early warning - ideally decades - that… — Carrie Nugent Hope Copy Share Image
There are physical bodies, physical worlds that astronauts could visit, that we haven't found yet. Especially, there's these close approaches of asteroids.… — Carrie Nugent Earth Copy Share Image
NEOWISE has two goals: One is to characterize asteroids, figure out how big and how bright they are, really basic information about… — Carrie Nugent Big Copy Share Image
We've actually named asteroids for other famous women in history, like Rosa Parks, Harriet Tubman, and Sojourner Truth. But it's really this… — Carrie Nugent Asteroids 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 About Copy Share Image
Certainly what happened to the dinosaurs was not good - that was a terrible day for the dinosaurs, very sad. But I… — Carrie Nugent Day Copy Share Image
If you were to stand on an asteroid in the main belt of asteroids between Mars and Jupiter in our solar system,… — Carrie Nugent Asteroids Copy Share Image
On the whole, asteroids tend to leave Earth alone. And day to day, there really isn't cause for most people to give… — Carrie Nugent Alone Copy Share Image
One of the reasons NEOWISE is so valuable is that it sees the sky in the thermal infrared. That means that instead… — Carrie Nugent Dark Copy Share Image
Becoming a scientist is a long journey, and at every step, I found projects that were exciting, motivating me to continue. My… — Carrie Nugent Astronomy Copy Share Image
When I tell people I'm a space scientist studying asteroids, they sometimes assume I'm a super-smart math whiz. The kind of person… — Carrie Nugent Good Copy Share Image
I think the public perception about asteroids is that they're kind of metaphors for acts of God, the fact that we have… — Carrie Nugent God Copy Share Image
There's been a lot of really great intensive research into earthquakes, but we can't predict an earthquake down to the day. We… — Carrie Nugent Day Copy Share Image
Back in the day, I've heard, particularly with the near-Earth asteroids, there were some asteroid hunters that knew the names of every… — Carrie Nugent Asteroid Copy Share Image
An asteroid impact in the worst case scenario is a terrifying thing. It seems very uncontrollable: in popular culture, it's often a… — Carrie Nugent Asteroid Copy Share Image
The best thing to do is to study these asteroids so we know the range of parameters we would have to deal… — Carrie Nugent Asteroids Copy Share Image
NASA has hit a comet with an impactor, during the Deep Impact mission. The goal of that mission was to study the… — Carrie Nugent Deep Copy Share Image
Astronomers are using every technique at their disposal to discover and study asteroids. — Carrie Nugent Asteroids Copy Share Image
I think every time we send a spacecraft to an asteroid or comet, we learn more. — Carrie Nugent I think Copy Share Image
Asteroids are our oldest and most numerous cosmic neighbors. — Carrie Nugent Asteroids Copy Share Image
I love studying asteroids because they are relatively simple, just rocks in space. They can be understood with physics and described with… — Carrie Nugent Celestial bodies Copy Share Image
If I go and buy a coffee, and somebody asks me what I do, I'll say, 'I find asteroids.' And the first… — Carrie Nugent Always Copy Share Image
People have discovered asteroids in the Main Belt that outgas like comets, and things on cometary orbits that no longer outgas -… — Carrie Nugent Asteroids Copy Share Image
I think Dawn has done an amazing job showing that asteroids aren't just hunks of rock. They're worlds - they're places an… — Carrie Nugent Amazing Copy Share Image
NEOCam wouldn't need cryogen, and it would also be able to see entirely new areas of space. It can scan the sky… — Carrie Nugent New Copy Share Image
The basic method to find asteroids hasn't changed much in hundreds of years. So asteroids in a telescope look just like stars… — Carrie Nugent Asteroids Copy Share Image
Our solar system is actually a wild frontier, teeming with different, diverse places: planets and moons, millions of objects of ice and… — Carrie Nugent Frontier Copy Share Image
We have a telescope that takes images, and we use a very nice computer program to isolate the moving images. And then,… — Carrie Nugent Computers Copy Share Image
It has only been within my lifetime that asteroids have been considered a credible threat to our planet. And since then, there's… — Carrie Nugent Asteroids Copy Share Image
