Comets Quote by Maria Mitchell

Madam: If you discover any more comets, can you not wait until they are announced by the proper authorities?

— George Phillips Bond

I saw, in looking over Cooper, elements of a comet of 1825 which resemble what I get out for this, from my own observations,…

— Maria Mitchell

So far, as far as we know comet Wild 2 is a unique object.

— Donald E. Brownlee

The astronomer will believe that the most erratic comet will yet accomplish its journey and revisit our sphere; but we give up those for…

— Charles Spurgeon

“It is a remarkable question- Do all the wonderful things happen when we are not aware of them? I shake my head. Technically, the…

— Jodi Picoult

Because the region of the Celestial World is of so great and such incredible magnitude as aforesaid, and since in what has gone before…

— Tycho Brahe

My dad's a physicist and had a key to the St Andrew's observatory, and we used to pop down to see Halley's Comet and…

— KT Tunstall

When I first heard that a comet was going to hit Jupiter, my reaction was, 'Eh. So what? Jupiter's huge. Comets are small. And…

— Heidi Hammel

“the tail of a comet can extend millionsof miles into space, always in the opposite direction of the sun, blown by the solar breeze.…

— Kelly Easton

There is a thin line between all of this space while I toss comets

— C-DASH

The tail of the comet slashed the dawn and in the red light of the rising sun, for a brief instant, it seemed as…

— Kathryn Lasky

It is of great importance to note these meteors, even the small ones, as very little is yet known of them; and every observation,…

— William John Wills