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1) Deep impact
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
2004
Description
'Deep Impact' is the story of the world's reaction to a death sentence. As a comet approaches the earth which might not be destroyed or divertedbefore it reaches earth, each individual struggles in the face of extinction to find what most matters to him or her.
2) Nemesis
Author
Series
Project nemesis volume 1
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 14
Description
As the Anvil, an enormous asteroid, threatens to end all life on Earth, sixteen-year-old Min begins to uncover a lifetime of lies, a sinister conspiracy involving all students in her sophomore class in Fire Lake, Idaho.
3) Dead hand
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2001
Description
When an unforeseen asteroid strikes Siberia with the force of a thousand Hiroshimas, it triggers Dead Hand, the ultimate defense mechanism developed by the Soviets at the height of the Cold War.
The missiles are pointing at the United States and its European allies, and ultra-nationalist General Likatchev is willing to use them as blackmail to topple the government in Moscow and return Russia to her status as world power.
When Russia responds to...
Author
Publisher
ROC
Pub. Date
c2002
Description
In the mid-1870s, a violent spray of comets hits Earth, decimating cities, erasing shorelines, and changing the world's climate forever. And just as Earth's temperature dropped, so was civilization frozen in time. Instead of advancing technologically, humanity had to piece itself back together . . . In the twenty-first century, boats still run on steam, messages arrive by telegraph, and the British Empire, with its capital now in Delhi, controls much...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
"An historical survey about asteroid hits sustained by Earth and the defenses being prepared against future asteroid-caused catastrophe"--
"Combining history, popular science, and in-depth reporting, here is a fascinating account of asteroids and other space objects that hit Earth long ago and those streaming toward us even now--as well as a look at the preparations humanity is making against asteroid-caused catastrophe. Journalist Gordon L. Dillow...
6) Greenland
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
As cities around the world are being destroyed by a comet, a family races against time to reach a possible safe haven.
Publisher
CBS DVD
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
When MIT grad student Liam Cole discovers an asteroid is set to collide with Earth in 186 days, he joins forces with tech billionaire Darius Tanz and the U.S. government to try and stop it, and together they stumble onto the greatest conspiracy never told.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
Set on the future earth. Johnny Rico is a young student dating a girl named Carmen. When Carmen decides she wants to become a citizen by joining the military, Johnny follows and joins as well. He soon realizes that he joined for the wrong reasons. Just as he is about to quit, an asteroid that originated from the orbit of planet Klendathu hits Buenos Aires and kills his family. From the bridge of the Fleet Battlestation Ticonderoga to the descolate...
9) Rage
Publisher
Bethesda Softworks
Pub. Date
2011
Description
After an asteroid impacts Earth, humanity attempts to rebuild. Sheltered in cryogenic lifeboats, survivors emerge years after impact to a devastated planet where some of mankind survived in struggling settlements or murderous bandit clans. A mysterious tyrannical government is on the hunt for YOU.
Publisher
A&E Television Networks
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
Venture through our solar system in an epic exploration of the universe and its mysteries. Go on an exhilarating voyage through the cosmos. Witness the sun's birth at the dawn of our solar system, and its death, billions of years in the future; explore the possibility of a human settlement on Mars; and learn about the devastating threats posed by the meteorites, comets, and asteroids that routinely collide with Earth. From the farthest planets and...
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