Discover Quote by Carrie Nugent

I love studying asteroids because they are relatively simple, just rocks in space. They can be understood with physics and described with elegant equations.…

— Carrie Nugent

The basic method to find asteroids hasn't changed much in hundreds of years. So asteroids in a telescope look just like stars with one…

— Carrie Nugent

We have a telescope that takes images, and we use a very nice computer program to isolate the moving images. And then, every potentially…

— Carrie Nugent

Scientists normally like to do experiments. You know, they like to mix this with that and see what happens. They like to take this…

— Heidi Hammel

It has only been within my lifetime that asteroids have been considered a credible threat to our planet. And since then, there's been a…

— Carrie Nugent

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

Astronomy may be revolutionized more than any other field of science by observations from above the atmosphere. Study of the planets, the Sun, the…

— Lyman Spitzer

The best thing to do is to study these asteroids so we know the range of parameters we would have to deal with and…

— Carrie Nugent

I think the public perception about asteroids is that they're kind of metaphors for acts of God, the fact that we have no control…

— Carrie Nugent

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

— Walter Baade

Astronomy teaches the correct use of the sun and the planets.

— Stephen Leacock

For it is the duty of an astronomer to compose the history of the celestial motions through careful and expert study.

— Nicolaus Copernicus