(10 quotes found)
“Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.”
Mark Twain
“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
“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
“By using gravity as your tow line, you can sidle up to an asteroid. Maintain it for a year and that should give it enough nudge to miss the earth 20 years later.”
Stanley Love
“That tells you something about its origin. Does it come from the asteroid belt or does or come from a comet? What are all the different pathways that material makes on its way to Earth? Those are the things we're interested in.”
Peter Brown
“Clearly, the lessons learned from this mission will fundamentally influence all future asteroid rendezvous missions.”
Daniel Scheeres
“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
“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
“the meaning of life is perfect perpetual change. Life=Change Alive=Changing matter is recombining in such a way as to create perfect energy. the moment perfection is achieved it is removed from our universe (returning to god). where there once was energy there is now nothing, a big bang occurs, process repeats until all possible combinations of matter to energy occur.”
Steve Bullock
“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.”
