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
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
I think every time we send a spacecraft to an asteroid or comet, we learn more. — Carrie Nugent I think 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
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 Find 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 Finding Copy Share Image
Astronomers are using every technique at their disposal to discover and study asteroids. — Carrie Nugent Discover 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
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
