← When an astronomer finds a new one, he gives it a number instead of a name. For example, he might call it “Asteroid 3251”. 🔊✎
← I have good reason to believe that the asteroid the little prince came from is asteroid B 612. 🔊✎
← Luckily for the reputation of asteroid B 612, a Turkish dictator introduced a law which said that all his people, on pain of death, were henceforth obliged to wear European clothes. 🔊✎
← If I have told you all these details about asteroid B 612 and even given you its number, it’s because of the grown-ups. 🔊✎
← But if you say “The planet he came from is asteroid B 612,” they’ll be convinced and they won’t ask you any more stupid questions. 🔊✎
← I hate to get all preachy. But the danger of the baobabs is so little known, and the risks you are taking if you ever get lost on an asteroid are so considerable, that for once I will break my rule. 🔊✎
← He was in the region of asteroids 325, 326, 327, 328, 329 and 330. 🔊✎