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NASA says that asteroids are “rocky fragments left over from the formation of the solar system 4.6 billion years ago.” With that in mind, check out the top 31 asteroid quotes.
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#31 – 30. Asteroid Quotes
31. Global warming, along with the cutting and burning of forests and other critical habitats, is causing the loss of living species at a level comparable to the extinction event that wiped out the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. That event was believed to have been caused by a giant asteroid. This time it is not an asteroid colliding with the Earth and wreaking havoc: it is us. – Al Gore
30. On Friday the 13th, April 2029, an asteroid large enough to fill the Rose Bowl as though it were an egg cup will fly so close to Earth that it will dip below the altitude of our communication satellites. We did not name this asteroid Bambi. Instead, we named it Apophis, after the Egyptian god of darkness and death. – Neil deGrasse Tyson
#29 – 20. Asteroid Quotes
29. It’s our job to make sure the solar system is well-behaved. Asteroid strikes are what we call “low-probability, high consequence” events. If we’re not investing in some kind of insurance, one of them, one day, could take us all out. – Don Yeomans
28. Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid. – Mark Twain
27. An asteroid can literally destroy 80 or 90 percent of the species that are alive on Earth. These are big events. I mean, this is called extinction. – Rusty Schweickart
26. We made and spent at least 10 million dollars. The thing is, we heard that the planet was going to end in 2012. We thought, We have got to spend this money before the asteroid hits. – Spencer Pratt
25. Caltech honored me — they named an asteroid after me. There’s only two of them up there with names. One of them is Walter Cronkite. The other is Tommy Lasorda. – Tommy Lasorda
24. What happens if a big asteroid hits Earth? Judging from realistic simulations involving a sledge hammer and a common laboratory frog, we can assume it will be pretty bad. – Dave Barry
23. In the short term, some deadly virus might be more important, but in the long run there is hardly anything more important than asteroids. – Rusty Schweickart
22. Luckily, there are some rocks left over from our earliest days, asteroids formed during our solar system’s birth. Occasionally, some of them drop in on Earth, and when they do, they’re called meteorites. – Neil deGrasse Tyson
21. Why can’t we summon the ingenuity and courage of the generations that came before us? The dinosaurs never saw that asteroid coming. What’s our excuse? – Neil deGrasse Tyson
20. I played mostly games like Asteroids and Pac-Man. Today, when I go into an arcade, the games are much more difficult and complex. I don’t think I could even play some of the video games that are out there today. – Brandi Chastain
#19 – 10. Asteroid Quotes
19. [There are only three ways to increase our chances against an asteroid aimed at Earth:] Find it early, find it early, find it early. – Don Yeomans
18. I’m extraordinarily passionate about the idea of asteroid mining in the future. Asteroids out there, we know them from those that have fallen on the Earth, there is a class of asteroids, sub-class of nickel/iron asteroids, which are 50,000 times more enriched than Platinum mines on earth.- Peter Diamandis
17. Of the 10,000 or so meteorites that have been collected and analyzed, eight are particularly unusual. They are so unusual, in fact, that since 1979 some investigators have thought they might have originated not in asteroids, as most meteorites did, but on the surface of Mars. – Lawrence M. Krauss
16. What happens if a big asteroid hits Earth ? Judging from realistic simulations involving a sledge hammer and a common laboratory frog, we can assume it will be pretty bad. – Dave Barry
15. I agree that we should go back to the moon and on to Mars. We should treat all objects in the solar system, including comets and asteroids, as exploration targets.- Neil deGrasse Tyson
14. For war is never some cosmic accident descending upon a people with all the chance and inevitability of asteroids falling like fire out of the heavens, but only the will and work of man. – David Zindell
13. I’ve seen Australia and I’ve lived on an asteroid and I’d take the asteroid. -Orson Scott Card
12. The chances that your tombstone will read ‘Killed by Asteroid’ are about the same as they’d be for ‘Killed in Airplane Crash.’ – Neil deGrasse Tyson
11. To set foot on the soil of the asteroids, to lift by hand a rock from the Moon, to observe Mars from a distance of several tens of kilometers, to land on its satellite or even on its surface, what can be more fantastic? From the moment of using rocket devices a new great era will begin in astronomy: the epoch of the more intensive study of the firmament. -Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
10. Mining asteroids will ultimately benefit humanity on and off the Earth in a multitude of ways. – Peter Diamandis
#9 – 1. Asteroid Quotes
9. You may have trouble getting permission to aero or lithobrake asteroids on Earth. – James Nicoll
8. There’s no accepted global policy on what to do about asteroid impacts. – Rusty Schweickart
7. This planet is 15 million years overdue for an asteroid strike like the one that killed the dinosaurs. – L. Neil Smith
6. We are involved in technology development for, you know, missions that we hope to plan that would take us to an asteroid and eventually to Mars. – Ellen Ochoa
5. Imagine a giant asteroid on a direct collision course with Earth. That is the equivalent of what we face now with climate change, yet we dither. – James Hansen
4. I despise the Lottery. There’s less chance of you becoming a millionaire than there is of getting hit on the head by a passing asteroid. – Brian May
3. It would take an extremely large spacecraft to deflect a large asteroid that would be headed directly for the Earth. – Rusty Schweickart
2. We need early warning systems, technologies to deflect an asteroid – and we need political preparedness as well. It needs to be clear who is to decide what, who launches the rockets, who presents which bills to its citizens. This is a planetary decision. We need to do this all together. Or it will not happen. – Rusty Schweickart
1. If the Earth gets hit by an asteroid, it’s game over. It’s control-alt-delete for civilization. – Bill Nye
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