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I think Dawn has done an amazing job showing that asteroids aren't just hunks of rock. They're worlds - they're places an astronaut can explore. I think the Rosetta mission also did an amazing job of that.

~Carrie Nugent

Topics: Also Amazing Astronaut Dawn Did Done Explore Job Just Mission Places Rock Showing Think Worlds I Think

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People have discovered asteroids in the Main Belt that outgas like comets, and things on cometary orbits that no longer outgas - that don't have tails. We're finding all of these unique cases.

~Carrie Nugent

Topics: Belt Cases Discovered Finding Like Longer Main People Tails Things Unique

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I think every time we send a spacecraft to an asteroid or comet, we learn more.

~Carrie Nugent

Topics: Asteroid Comet Every Every Time Learn More Send Think Time I Think

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When I tell people I'm a space scientist studying asteroids, they sometimes assume I'm a super-smart math whiz. The kind of person who skipped a bunch of grades and went to college when they were sixteen. Although I am good at math, school was difficult for me, and I didn't get straight A's.

~Carrie Nugent

Topics: Although Am Assume Bunch College Difficult Get Good Grades Kind Math Me People Person School Scientist Sixteen Sometimes Space Straight Studying Tell Were Who I Am

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Becoming a scientist is a long journey, and at every step, I found projects that were exciting, motivating me to continue. My path was not straightforward - when I began studying physics in college, I had no idea I would end up studying asteroids; in fact, I never took an astronomy class.

~Carrie Nugent

Topics: Astronomy Becoming Began Class College Continue End Every Every Step Exciting Fact Found Had Idea In Fact Journey Long Long Journey Me Motivating Never No Idea Path Physics Projects Scientist Step Straightforward Studying Took Up Were Would

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I love studying asteroids because they are relatively simple, just rocks in space. They can be understood with physics and described with elegant equations. For the most part, they are serene celestial bodies.

~Carrie Nugent

Topics: Because Bodies Celestial Elegant Equations Just Love Most Part Physics Relatively Rocks Serene Simple Space Studying Understood I Love

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On the whole, asteroids tend to leave Earth alone. And day to day, there really isn't cause for most people to give them any thought. But despite being remote objects that most people have never seen, asteroids, and the threat they pose, come up an awful lot in popular culture.

~Carrie Nugent

Topics: Alone Any Awful Awful Lot Being Cause Come Culture Day Day To Day Despite Earth Give Leave Lot Most Never Objects People Popular Popular Culture Pose Really Remote Seen Tend Them Thought Threat Up Whole

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By searching the sky now, me and other asteroid hunters hope to give us the early warning - ideally decades - that we need. But that strategy of focused searching hasn't stopped people from thinking about what we might do if an asteroid was on its way toward us.

~Carrie Nugent

Topics: About Asteroid Decades Early Focused Give Hope Hunters Ideally Me Might Need Now Other People Searching Sky Stopped Strategy Thinking Toward Us Warning Way

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Changing the asteroid's velocity changes the time when the asteroid crosses Earth's orbit. After all, just because it crosses Earth's path doesn't mean there is necessarily going to be a collision. It has to cross Earth's path when the Earth is right there.

~Carrie Nugent

Topics: After Asteroid Because Changes Changing Collision Cross Crosses Earth Going Just Just Because Mean Necessarily Orbit Path Right Time Velocity

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NASA has hit a comet with an impactor, during the Deep Impact mission. The goal of that mission was to study the surface by making a crater and stirring up the surface material so it could be studied.

~Carrie Nugent

Topics: Comet Could Deep Goal Hit Impact Making Material Mission Nasa Stirring Studied Study Surface Up

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Nationality: American

Type: Scientist

Born: Unknown

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