... The movie is about (stop me if you've heard this before...) a giant asteroid headed towards Earth, and our only hope is a lone group of heroes who must blow it up before it hits our planet. ...
... I was prepared for the worst, even though I knew there was a team of astronomers used as science advisors for the flick (after all, the evil NBC movie "Asteroid" acknowledged the Griffith Observatory for their scientific advice!) ...
... Even though we recently had two naked eye comets pass by the Earth (Hale-Bopp and Hyakutake), and millions of people saw them, they will probably remember the comet from ``Deep Impact'' and the asteroid from ``Armageddon'' better. ...
... This cloud, the article breathlessly exclaims, ...dissolves everything in its path, including comets, asteroids, planets and entire stars -- and it's headed directly toward Earth! ...
... We're all familiar with the solar system: one star -- the Sun -- in the center, 4 inner planets, an asteroid belt, four giant planets, and then Pluto. ...
... Three weeks ago was about the expansion of the Universe , for Pete's sake, and last week was about an asteroid folks thought would impact the Earth! ...
... This theory has been more recently supplanted by the idea of a giant asteroid impact doing the deed, but the exploding star theory did spur some interest. ...