Closest Approaches To Earth
- 1702-04-20: 0.0435 AU from Earth
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Famous quotes containing the words closest, approaches and/or earth:
“Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing.”
—Norman Mailer (b. 1923)
“The closer a man approaches tragedy the more intense is his concentration of emotion upon the fixed point of his commitment, which is to say the closer he approaches what in life we call fanaticism.”
—Arthur Miller (b. 1915)
“I am sure my bones would not rest in an English grave, or my clay mix with the earth of that country. I believe the thought would drive me mad on my death-bed could I suppose that any of my friends would be base enough to convey my carcass back to her soil. I would not even feed her worms if I could help it.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)