Deep Quote by Carrie Nugent

“The moon is the better storyteller for this event. Our ancient craters are smoothed over by erosion and tectonic motion. With no erosion, no…

— Craig Childs

When I first heard that a comet was going to hit Jupiter, my reaction was, 'Eh. So what? Jupiter's huge. Comets are small. And…

— Heidi Hammel

They say asteroids hit the moon pretty often, which is how the moon gets its crater, but this one is going to be the…

— Susan Beth Pfeffer

“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

It was not an asteroid or comet, because it would have killed everything.

— Robert T. Bakker

I have worn myself thin trying to find out about this comet, and I know very little now in the matter.

— Maria Mitchell

Seventy percent of Earth's surface is water and over 99 percent is uninhabited, so you would expect nearly all impactors to hit either the…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

“The key point of the Tunguska Event is that there was a tremendous explosion, a great shock wave, an enormous forest fire, and yet…

— Carl Sagan

To set foot on the soil of the asteroids, to lift by hand a rock from the Moon, to observe Mars from a distance…

— Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

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

Small bodies in our solar system, like comets and asteroids, help us understand how the solar system formed and provide opportunities to advance exploration.

— John M. Grunsfeld

“The of sitting a telescope in space was obviously not to get closer to the stars and planets the telescope was to study. That…

— Jostein Gaarder