Computers Quote by 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

I only hope that we shall not wait to adopt the program until after our astronomers have reported a new and unsuspected asteroid moving…

— Wernher von Braun

For a long time, we've worked on detecting planets with whatever was at hand, making use of existing small telescopes or even amateur telescopes.…

— Andrew Gould

For a long time, weve worked on detecting planets with whatever was at hand, making use of existing small telescopes or even amateur telescopes.…

— Andrew Gould

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

— 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

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

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

The mission of NASA's Kepler telescope is to lift the scales from our eyes and reveal to us just how typical our home world…

— Seth Shostak

Sooner or later the space program will need to save us by detecting and deflecting an incoming asteroid.

— Nathan Myhrvold

By searching the sky now, me and other asteroid hunters hope to give us the early warning - ideally decades - that we need.…

— Carrie Nugent

In the next century or two, we humans will have planet-finder telescopes that span our solar system with mirrors strewn from here to Jupiter,…

— Geoffrey Marcy