Armageddon, Deep Impact, and more: The best killer-asteroid

"The sky is falling!"

Technically, Henny Penny, a.k.a. Chicken Little, squawked this warning first way back in a 19th century Danish folktale. What was once a cute story of misunderstanding and a dramatic hyperbole has been adapted by contemporary filmmakers into an entire genre: the planet-murdering comet movie.

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