Asteroid Quote by Carrie Nugent

There are all these interesting rules about asteroid nomenclature. Once you discover it, you have the right to name it, but there's a catch.

— Carrie Nugent

I am always cautious about naming the known, as we often forget to hold in regard those whose names will never be known to…

— Joan Halifax

We've actually named asteroids for other famous women in history, like Rosa Parks, Harriet Tubman, and Sojourner Truth. But it's really this Malala one…

— Carrie Nugent

Why are hemorrhoids called hemorrhoids and asteroids called asteroids? Wouldn't it make more sense if it was the other way around? But if that…

— Robert Schimmel

Caltech honored me -- they named an asteroid after me. There's only two of them up there with names. One of them is Walter…

— Tommy Lasorda

There are thousands of asteroids whose orbit in the Solar System crosses that of Earth. And we have a little acronym for them -…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Scientists have egos, and scientists like to name dinosaurs. They like to name anything. Everybody likes to have their own animal that they named.

— Jack Horner

Naming celestial objects is usually done by astronomers and professionals. Other people who are interested in space never get the opportunity to do that…

— Alan Stern

We all have names we don't know about.

— Martin Amis

NASA projects often have romantic names that link into a long history of exploration and adventure: Atlantis and Discovery, for example.

— Hanna Rosin

Names which tell stories have been worth millions of dollars. So a great deal of research often precedes the selection of a name.

— Claude C. Hopkins

We humans have had from time unknown the compulsion to name things and thus to be able to deal with them. The name we…

— Katherine Paterson