Asteroids Quote by Carrie Nugent

Astronomers are using every technique at their disposal to discover and study asteroids.

— Carrie Nugent

People have discovered asteroids in the Main Belt that outgas like comets, and things on cometary orbits that no longer outgas - that don't…

— Carrie Nugent

Asteroids are our oldest and most numerous cosmic neighbors.

— Carrie Nugent

I think Dawn has done an amazing job showing that asteroids aren't just hunks of rock. They're worlds - they're places an astronaut can…

— 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

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

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

If you were to stand on an asteroid in the main belt of asteroids between Mars and Jupiter in our solar system, you might…

— Carrie Nugent

There are physical bodies, physical worlds that astronauts could visit, that we haven't found yet. Especially, there's these close approaches of asteroids. They pass…

— 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

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

Back in the day, I've heard, particularly with the near-Earth asteroids, there were some asteroid hunters that knew the names of every one.

— Carrie Nugent