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There's been a lot of really great intensive research into earthquakes, but we can't predict an earthquake down to the day. We can't predict where a hurricane is going to be a month in advance.

~Carrie Nugent

Topics: Advance Been Day Down Earthquake Earthquakes Going Great Hurricane Intensive Lot Month Predict Really Research Where

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There are all these interesting rules about asteroid nomenclature. Once you discover it, you have the right to name it, but there's a catch.

~Carrie Nugent

Topics: About Asteroid Catch Discover Interesting Name Once Right Rules You

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Our solar system is actually a wild frontier, teeming with different, diverse places: planets and moons, millions of objects of ice and rock.

~Carrie Nugent

Topics: Actually Different Diverse Frontier Ice Millions Objects Our Places Planets Rock Solar Solar System System Wild

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One of the reasons NEOWISE is so valuable is that it sees the sky in the thermal infrared. That means that instead of seeing the sunlight that asteroids reflect, NEOWISE sees the heat that they emit. This is a vital capability, since some asteroids are as dark as coal and can be difficult or impossible to spot with other telescopes.

~Carrie Nugent

Topics: Capability Coal Dark Difficult Heat Impossible Instead Means Other Reasons Reflect Seeing Sees Since Sky Some Spot Sunlight Valuable Vital

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An asteroid impact is a preventable natural disaster. It's in part preventable because we have the technology, and it's in part preventable because it's predictable.

~Carrie Nugent

Topics: Asteroid Because Disaster Impact Natural Natural Disaster Part Predictable Technology

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There are physical bodies, physical worlds that astronauts could visit, that we haven't found yet. Especially, there's these close approaches of asteroids. They pass within geosynchronous orbit sometimes, and they pass within the Earth and the moon.

~Carrie Nugent

Topics: Approaches Astronauts Bodies Close Could Earth Found Moon Orbit Pass Physical Sometimes Visit Within Worlds

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I think that, a lot of times, people have this idea that the solar system is entirely explored, that we have sent spacecraft to every planet, we've taken beautiful pictures of everything, and that it's kind of done.

~Carrie Nugent

Topics: Beautiful Done Entirely Every Everything Explored Idea Kind Lot People Pictures Planet Sent Solar Solar System System Taken Think Times Times People I Think

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NEOWISE has two goals: One is to characterize asteroids, figure out how big and how bright they are, really basic information about these bodies; and we also find asteroids.

~Carrie Nugent

Topics: About Also Basic Big Bodies Bright Characterize Figure Find Goals How Information Out Really Two

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We've actually named asteroids for other famous women in history, like Rosa Parks, Harriet Tubman, and Sojourner Truth. But it's really this Malala one that's catching people's attention.

~Carrie Nugent

Topics: Actually Attention Catching Famous History Like Named Other Parks People Really Rosa Rosa Parks Truth Women

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If you were to stand on an asteroid in the main belt of asteroids between Mars and Jupiter in our solar system, you might be able to see one or two asteroids in the sky, but they would be very far away and very, very small. So you wouldn't have this 'dodging through tons of rocks' business you get in the movies.

~Carrie Nugent

Topics: Able Asteroid Away Belt Between Business Far Far Away Get Jupiter Main Mars Might Movies One Or Two Our Rocks See Sky Small Solar Solar System Stand System Through Tons Two Very Were Would You

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Scientist

Born: Unknown

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