Near-Earth Objects Quotes

“As pointed out by David Jewitt, the name “Kuiper belt” then follows Stigler’s law, which states, “no scientific discovery is named after its original discoverer.”
― Donald K. Yeomans, Near-Earth Objects: Finding Them Before They Find Us

“a system of postulates, mathematical relationships, data, and inferences that form a basis for describing a scientific process or sequence of events. These models need to be tested against new observations to see how well they hold up. That’s a big part of the scientific method.”
― Donald K. Yeomans, Near-Earth Objects: Finding Them Before They Find Us

“near-Earth objects that approach the Earth’s orbit to within 0.05 AU, which is roughly the distance that a near-Earth object’s trajectory can be gravitationally altered by a single planetary encounter.”
― Donald K. Yeomans, Near-Earth Objects: Finding Them Before They Find Us

“Although the show-off comets in the inner solar system are impressive, it is the far more numerous asteroids in the Earth’s neighborhood that should have been feared as they represent the most frequent threats to Earth.”
― Donald K. Yeomans, Near-Earth Objects: Finding Them Before They Find Us