Attention 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

NEOWISE needed a cryogen coolant to keep its sensors cool, and that ran out.

— Carrie Nugent

An asteroid impact in the worst case scenario is a terrifying thing. It seems very uncontrollable: in popular culture, it's often a metaphor for…

— 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

Certainly what happened to the dinosaurs was not good - that was a terrible day for the dinosaurs, very sad. But I have to…

— 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

Changing the asteroid's velocity changes the time when the asteroid crosses Earth's orbit. After all, just because it crosses Earth's path doesn't mean there…

— Carrie Nugent

If we found a hazardous asteroid, we could nudge it out of the way.

— Carrie Nugent

One of the reasons NEOWISE is so valuable is that it sees the sky in the thermal infrared. That means that instead of seeing…

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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

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

Becoming a scientist is a long journey, and at every step, I found projects that were exciting, motivating me to continue. My path was…

— Carrie Nugent