“Would we want to do the same thing to a different type of comet? I don't want to answer that question until we have analyzed the results from this comet. It depends on what picture we piece together from observing beneath this comet's surface,”
Lucy McFadden
“When we see comets up in the sky they're really spectacular. But unless you get close to a comet, you can't really figure out what's going on.”
Joseph Veverka
“I see myself as a huge fiery comet, a shooting star. Everyone stops, points up and gasps "Oh look at that!" Then- whoosh, and I'm gone...and they'll never see anything like it ever again... and they won't be able to forget me- ever.”
Jim Morrison
“When beggars die there are no comets seen;The heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes.”
William Shakespeare
“I conclude, therefore, that this star is not some kind of comet or a fiery meteor. . . but that it is a star shining in the firmament itself one that has never previously been seen before our time, in any age since the beginning of the world.”
Tycho Brahe
“We want an ensemble of stars, not comets.”
Rudolf Bing
“We are confident [the comet] was made out of the initial building blocks of our solar system.”
Don Brownlee
