{"id":263684,"date":"2024-11-01T14:36:29","date_gmt":"2024-11-01T14:36:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/01\/how-to-kill-an-asteroid-review-hollywood-fantasy-vs-the-real-science-of-saving-earth\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T17:10:38","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T17:10:38","slug":"how-to-kill-an-asteroid-review-hollywood-fantasy-vs-the-real-science-of-saving-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/01\/how-to-kill-an-asteroid-review-hollywood-fantasy-vs-the-real-science-of-saving-earth\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Kill an Asteroid review: Hollywood fantasy vs the real science of saving Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A meteor burns up as it nears Earth, unlike asteroids that can hit\u00a0the\u00a0surface and wreak havoc<\/p>\n

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How to Kill an Asteroid<\/a><\/strong><\/em>
Robin George Andrews (W.W.Norton)<\/strong><\/p>\n

FOR a generation of scientists \u2013 and science fiction fans \u2013 Hollywood movies like Armageddon<\/i> and Deep Impact<\/i> have helped shape and scare society. The risk of an asteroid wreaking havoc on our planet, wiping out large swathes of Earth and the humans on it, are real.<\/p>\n

But as science journalist Robin George Andrews writes in How to Kill an Asteroid: The real science of planetary defence<\/i>, the danger\u2026<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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