Armagedon (1998) Dr. gregg wilkerson

Director: Michael Bay (Armageddon, Pearl Harbor, and the Transformers film series)

Bruce Willis, (Moonlighting Bruce Willis, (Moonlighting. Die Hard series, Death Becomes Her, Pulp Fiction, 12 Monkeys, The Fifth Element, The Sixth Sense, Unbreakable, Sin City, Red, Moonrise, The Expendables 2, Looper). Billy Bob Thornton,(One False Move, Sling Blade, A Simple Plan, Monster's Ball, The Man Who Wasn't There, and Friday Night Lights; Bandits, Intolerable Cruelty, and Bad Santa; Eagle Eye, Faster, Fargo). Ben Affleck, (The Voyage of the Mimi, School Ties, Against the Grain, Dazed and Confused, Glory Daze, Chasing Amy, Good Will Hunting, Pearl Harbor, Daredevil, Gigli, Surviving Christmas, Hollywood Gone Baby Gone, The Town, Argo, Gone Girl, Batman v Superman)

Liv Tyler, (Lord of the Rings, Silent Fall, That Thing You Do Liv Tyler, (Lord of the Rings, Silent Fall, That Thing You Do!, Stealing Beauty,Inventing the Abbotts, Cookie's Fortune, Onegin, Dr. T & the Women, and One Night at McCool's, Jersey Girl, Lonesome Jim, Reign Over Me, The Strangers, The Incredible Hulk, Super, Space Station 76, and Wildling) Michael Clark Duncan, (The Green Mile, The Whole Nine Yards, The Scorpion King, Daredevil, Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby). Steve Buscemi, (Parting Glances, New York Stories, Mystery Train, Reservoir Dogs, Desperado, Con Air, The Grey Zone, Ghost

Opening 6 miles wide asteroid No sunlight for 1000 years “It will happen again…’ WATCH IT!

Large Asteroid Impacts Very Rare Last big one 65 million years ago Nuclear winter perhaps decades, not millennia Annual risk: 1:300,000 NASA Planetary Defense Coordination Office (PDCO). Sentry Program

Henderson Dinosaur Goodbye Depressing WATCH IT!

Micro-asteroids kill astronauts Dangers of space WATCH IT!

My wife Dottie Killer asteroid discovered by armature ex-Navy astronomer. “She’s a life-sucking bitch from which there is no escape” WATCH IT!

It’s the size of Texas! Hubble image Dinosaur killer was 6 miles in diameter! Will arrive in 18 days WATCH IT!

Biggest Asteroids Ceres, Vesta, and Pallas are the biggest known asteroids, which together comprise over 45% of the mass of the asteroid belt.

Texas sized asteroid Unlikely to have been missed by NASA 18 days to go 329–478 million kilometers from the asteroid belt Would have to travel 810,183 km/hr or 1/300th speed of light. What caused that acceleration? Speed of light is 299,792,458 m/s or

Not even bacteria All life gone! WATCH IT

We drill! Nukes won’t work Drill down inside asteroid, then nuke, split it in half WATCH IT!

Destroy the station Team up with Russian Explosions WATCH IT!

Crash Landings Independence shuttle destroyed Landing on ice WATCH IT

Asteroids rocky: Comets icy Asteroids are failed rocky planetoid between Mars and Jupiter Comets are from Kuiper Belt, made of ice and other gases outside orbit of Uranus/Pluto

Space probe landings on asteroids Hayabusa 2 VIDEO

Drilling After several setbacks… 250 feet in 1 hour! WATCH IT!

Heroic action Can’t remote detonate Draw straws Hero to the end WATCH IT!

Split the asteroid in two? Trajectory matters Not mass 200 gigatons of TNT to fully disrupt an asteroid with a 20- kilometer diameter  about 10 million Hiroshima- size bombs Movie asteroid is “size of Texas”

Solution: Move them out of the way Minor alterations in trajectory Gravity tractor Impacts Lasso