God Quote by Carrie Nugent

On the whole, asteroids tend to leave Earth alone. And day to day, there really isn't cause for most people to give them any…

— Carrie Nugent

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

Asteroids have hit the Earth millions of times. We can see them as shooting stars every night. When they get bigger, things get complicated.…

— Rusty Schweickart

Some asteroids have us in their sights. Be nice to sort of go near them and find out what they're made of, possibly tag…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

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

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

People have to take seriously the threat coming from asteroids and what it represents. As Chelyabinsk reminded us, we have to take asteroids as…

— Kesha Rogers

If you get asteroids about a kilometer in size, those are large enough and carry enough energy into our system to disrupt transportation, communication,…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

“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

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

— Walter Baade

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