Asteroid Quote by Dave Barry

What happens if a big asteroid hits Earth ? Judging from realistic simulations involving a sledge hammer and a common laboratory frog, we can…

— Anonymous

It would take an extremely large spacecraft to deflect a large asteroid that would be headed directly for the Earth.

— Rusty Schweickart

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

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

What if an asteroid were to strike planet Earth? What could we possibly do to prevent it? However many guys we have working on…

— Timothy Noah

Americans who read the papers or watch Jay Leno have been aware for some time now that there is a slim but real possibility…

— Rusty Schweickart

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

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

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

— Robert T. Bakker

An asteroid impact is a preventable natural disaster. It's in part preventable because we have the technology, and it's in part preventable because it's…

— Carrie Nugent

When you have an asteroid threatening Earth, it's uncertain where it's going to hit until the last minute; the decision to take action has…

— Rusty Schweickart

However, the small probability of a similar encounter [of the earth with a comet], can become very great in adding up over a huge…

— Pierre-Simon Laplace