About Quote by Neil deGrasse Tyson

It has only been within my lifetime that asteroids have been considered a credible threat to our planet. And since then, there's been a…

— Carrie Nugent

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

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

On the whole, asteroids tend to leave Earth alone. And day to day, there really isn't cause for most people to give them any…

— Carrie Nugent

There are thousands of asteroids whose orbit in the Solar System crosses that of Earth. And we have a little acronym for them -…

— 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

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

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

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 are our oldest and most numerous cosmic neighbors.

— Carrie Nugent

Asteroids have been hitting the moon for a long time, especially on the back side.

— Robert Bigelow

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