VERIFIED QUOTE · reported 2025-07-26
“We now have things worth protecting that are a bit further away from Earth.”
Dr. Paul Wiegert · said date not stated · reported 2025-07-26
Dr. Paul Wiegert suggested expanding planetary defense monitoring to protect assets beyond Earth.
This quote was mechanically extracted from the cited article and verified as an exact substring of the source text before publication. Attribution follows the article's own wording.