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Paul Chodas
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astronomer , a senior scientist at NASA’s Center for Near-Earth Object Studies (CNEOS), Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), California. He is an authority on asteroid dynamics and impact probabilities. He is the principal architect for orbit determination and ephemeris software used by the JPL NEO Program Office.
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Science Quotes by Paul Chodas (1 quote)
Asteroids are nature’s way of asking, “How's that space program going?”
— Paul Chodas
On Near-Earth Object (NEO) Program at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. As quoted in Jeffrey Kluger, 'The Man Who Guards the Planet', Time (9 Jun 2014), 37.
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
(1987) -- 
