“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
“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
“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
“We think comets make up a huge amount of stuff out in the solar system. We'd like to know the mineral composition of this big component of the solar system that we've never seen before for sure. Various particles have been measured that have been inferred to be from comets, but nobody's sure. This would finally provide some ground truth.”
Lawrence Grossman
“When beggars die there are no comets seen;The heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes.”
William Shakespeare
“What the (main-belt comet) discovery means, I suspect, is that the snow line was at about 3 AU (Earth distances) or closer at the time when the outer belt objects formed.”
David Jewett
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