Asteroids Quote by Neil deGrasse Tyson

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

This planet is 15 million years overdue for an asteroid strike like the one that killed the dinosaurs.

— L. Neil Smith

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

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

“Jupiter's fly-by had been carried out with impeccable precision. Like a ball on a cosmic pool table, Discovery had bounced off the moving gravitational…

— Arthur C. Clarke

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

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

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

— Robert T. Bakker

While we didn't know the dinosaurs personally, we do know that they were wiped out by an asteroid impact.

— Rusty Schweickart

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

“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

Why dinosaurs are extinct.

— Alla

Just because Pluto or comets aren't as big as Jupiter doesn't mean they are not scientifically important - indeed, just the reverse is often…

— Alan Stern