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1) Armageddon
Publisher
Touchstone Home Video
Pub. Date
[1998]
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (151 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When NASA discovers a doomsday asteroid that is on a collision course with Earth, a crew of roughneck oil drillers is sent in to plant a nuclear warhead that should destroy it.
2) Nemesis
Author
Series
Project Nemesis volume 1
Language
English
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) Target earth
Author
Publisher
Reader's Digest Association
Pub. Date
2000.
Physical Desc
160 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Prometheus Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
282 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Presents a realistic, workable plan for defusing a potentially lethal threat from a rogue asteroid or comet. The explosion of a large meteor over Chelyabinsk, Siberia, in February 2013 is just the latest reminder that planet Earth is vulnerable to damaging and potentially catastrophic collisions with space debris of various kinds. In this informative and forward-looking book, veteran aerospace writer William E. Burrows explains what we can do in...
6) Deep impact
Language
English
Formats
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.
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
xii, 509 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"The evidence revealed in this book shows beyond reasonable doubt that an advanced civilization that flourished during the Ice Age was destroyed in the global cataclysms between 12,800 and 11,600 years ago. But there were survivors-- known to later cultures by names such as 'the Sages', 'the Magicians', 'the Shining Ones', and 'the Mystery Teachers of Heaven'. They travelled the world in their great ships doing all in their power to keep the spark...
10) World of trouble
Author
Series
Last policeman trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Quirk Books
Language
English
Formats
Description
"With the doomsday asteroid looming, Detective Hank Palace has found sanctuary in the woods of New England, secure in a well-stocked safe house with other onetime members of the Concord police force. But with time ticking away before the asteroid makes landfall, Hank's safety is only relative, and his only relative--his sister Nico--isn't safe. Soon, it's clear that there's more than one earth-shattering revelation on the horizon, and it's up to Hank...
12) Asteroid hunters
Author
Publisher
Ruby Tuesday Books
Pub. Date
©2016.
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
Join scientists as they use telescopes to discover a new asteroid. Is it a danger to life on Earth?
13) Countdown city
Author
Series
Last policeman trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Quirk Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Set three months before a deadly asteroid is due to hit Earth, this Last Policeman sequel chronicles the further adventures of Hank Palace. The Concord Police Department is now operating under the auspices of the U.S. Justice Department, and Hank is out of a job-until he's hired by a business tycoon to help find the man's estranged son. It isn't long before Hank's missing-person case turns into a murder investigation.
14) Dead hand
Author
Language
English
Formats
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
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
76 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 24 x 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Asteroids come in all shapes and sizes--and hit our planet in them, too. But what happens if a catastrophically large one approaches earth? By looking on the ground at historical asteroid craters and present-day falls, and up into space for the big ones yet to come, a wide variety of scientists are trying to figure out how to track asteroids--and how to avoid devastating impacts in the future."--
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (56 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Nova investigates a provocative new theory that suggests the extinction of more than 34 types of large prehistoric mega-creatures, such as the saber-toothed cat and woolly mammoth, was caused not by climate change or the arrival of the first human hunters, but by the massive breakup of a comet over the Great Lakes region at the end of the last Ice Age, some 12,900 years ago." WGBH/Nova website.
18) Asteroid impact
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2000]
Physical Desc
40 pages : color illustrations, color map ; 23 x 28 cm
Language
English
Description
Text and illustrations explore the theory that the collision of an asteroid with the Earth ended the Cretaceous Period and caused the extinction of the dinosaurs.
Publisher
Kino Classics
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (95 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
The two Novalic brothers, Jean and Martial, are in love with the same woman, Genevieve. Jean is an impoverished actor and an idealistic dreamer, who does not want Genevieve to share in his life of suffering. Martial is an internationally-respected astronomer who discovers the return of Lexell's Comet, on a collision course for Earth. Meanwhile, the rich play while the world is arming for war. Martial decides to use the impending threat of world destruction...
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