Asteroids Quote by L. Neil Smith

Sooner or later, we will face a catastrophic threat from space. Of all the possible threats, only a gigantic asteroid hit can destroy the…

— Michio Kaku

“A mere sixty-five million years ago (less than two percent of Earth’s past), a ten-trillion-ton asteroid hit what is now the Yucatan Peninsula and…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

The dinosaurs never saw that asteroid coming. What's our excuse?

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

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

Eventually, I believe, everything evens out. Long ago an asteroid hit our planet and killed our dinosaurs. But in the future, maybe we'll go…

— Jack Handey

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

The action we take in the next few years will impact the Earth hundreds of millions of years from now.

— Louie Psihoyos

Asteroids have us in our sight. The dinosaurs didn't have a space program, so they're not here to talk about this problem. We are,…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

If we do our homework right, never again should an asteroid that can do damage on the ground impact the Earth. We're living in…

— 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

An asteroid can literally destroy 80 or 90 percent of the species that are alive on Earth. These are big events. I mean, this…

— Rusty Schweickart

When you look at the origins and evolution of life on Earth, it's been severely affected by asteroid impacts through history.

— Rusty Schweickart