“Asteroids may be different from one another. If you find an asteroid on a collision course, you may not know what that particular one looks like.”
Edward Lu
“Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.”
Mark Twain
“The results from the current mission will be essential for developing a better understanding of the actual asteroid environment, and for making large advances in asteroid science.”
Daniel Scheeres
“Clearly, the lessons learned from this mission will fundamentally influence all future asteroid rendezvous missions.”
“We've identified a new type of object that by the shape of its orbit is definitely a main-belt asteroid, but by its appearance is definitely a comet. It fits into both categories.”
David Jewitt
“It would be helpful to have a similar type of mission go to an asteroid and compare the results, ... That mission is Deep Interior. It has been proposed in the past to NASA's Discovery program, but has not been accepted.”
Lucy McFadden
“We think this is a tight, narrow ring of rocky objects similar to those in our asteroid belt, except this ring is five AU from its star, instead of two-to-three AU, the distance between our asteroid belt and the sun.”
Michael Meyer
