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In book one, a 76-mile (122 km)-long asteroid is on a collision course with Earth, which will kill the vast majority of all living things.Eighty people – mostly top scientists and their families – have been chosen to make a desperate escape in the Mayflower, a converted space ship which will use solar sails and experimental suspended animation.
(89959) 2002 NT 7 (provisional designation 2002 NT 7) is a near-Earth object with a diameter of 1.4 kilometers and potentially hazardous asteroid of the Apollo group. [2] [3] It has a well determined orbit with an observation arc of 64 years including precovery images by Palomar Observatory dating back to 1954.
Apocalyptic fiction is a subgenre of science fiction that is concerned with the end of civilization due to a potentially existential catastrophe such as nuclear warfare, pandemic, extraterrestrial attack, impact event, cybernetic revolt, technological singularity, dysgenics, supernatural phenomena, divine judgment, climate change, resource depletion or some other general disaster.
The book received mostly positive reviews from critics. [5] [2] Publishers Weekly praised the novel's fast moving action and suspense. [3] Annie Deo of Nerd Daily praised its central plot, and described its handling of themes as a "a nuanced, thought-provoking contemplation of timely issues". [1] It received the 2022 Philip K. Dick Award. [6]
As Lyekka's asteroid attacks Earth, the crew flees with the particle accelerator to destroy the asteroid. As they leave Earth, Prince appears to Kai and fulfills his promise to him, restoring Kai's mortality. 790, now completely insane and still madly in love with Kai, takes advantage of the Lexx's senility and has it destroy Earth to kill any ...
NASA has a spacecraft en route to asteroid Psyche, which is orbiting the Sun between Mars and Jupiter, but it won’t get there until 2029.By some estimates, the iron in the 140-mile-wide metal ...
Fans flock to Sugar Bowl in New Orleans after deadly New Year's attack The attacker, 42-year-old army veteran Shamsud-Din Jabbar, was killed in a gunfight with police after he drove a pick-up ...
Caliban's War is a 2012 science fiction novel by James S. A. Corey (pen name of Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck).It is about a conflict in the Solar System that involves the polities Earth, Mars, the Asteroid Belt and the outer planets, and a powerful extraterrestrial biological von Neumann probe.