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Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
"Asteroids and comets: Every year, millions of these 'stray bullets' streak the skies, and tons of small meteorites strike our planet! Some 65 million years ago, dinosaurs were wiped off the face of the earth in what many believe was the aftermath of a massive comet collision. Could something like this happen again? Scientists believe that the impact of an asteroid only a mile wide would be globally catastrophic. Join extraordinary geologist Eugene...
Author
Publisher
Bantam
Pub. Date
c1993.
Language
English
Description
In the year 2110 technology has cured most of our worries. But even as humankind enters a new golden age, an amateur astronomer points his telescope at just the right corner of the night sky and sees disaster hurtling toward Earth: a chunk of rock that could annihilate civilization. While a few fanatics welcome the apocalyptic destruction as a sign from God, the greatest scientific minds of Earth desperately search for a way to avoid the inevitable....
11) Eon
Author
Language
English
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Description
"New York Times bestselling author Greg Bear's Eon is now available for the first time in trade paperback. The 21st century was on the brink of nuclear confrontation when the 300 kilometer-long stone flashed out of nothingness and into Earth's orbit. NASA, NATO, and the UN sent explorers to the asteroid's surface ... and discovered marvels and mysteries to drive researchers mad. For the Stone was from space--but perhaps not our space; it came from...
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Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2017]
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."--
14) Nemesis
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Series
Language
English
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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.
15) Falling stars
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
Mariesa van Huyten leads the struggle to stop asteroids that are on a collision course with Earth.
16) Armageddon
Publisher
Touchstone Home Video
Pub. Date
c1998.
Language
English
Description
When an asteroid the size of Texas is headed for Earth, a ragtag team of roughneck oil drillers are sent to drop a nuclear warhead into its core.
17) Nemesis
Author
Language
English
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Description
Marlene, a fifteen-year-old Rotorian girl, learns of the threat Nemesis poses to the Earth and its people. She is stopped from warning Earth, but when she discovers Rotor is also in danger she knows she must save both Earth and Rotor from the death star, Nemesis.
18) Countdown city
Author
Series
Last policeman volume 2
Publisher
Quirk Books
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.
20) World of trouble
Author
Series
Last policeman 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...
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