Asteroid expert rates nine asteroid disasters in movies and tv

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Asteroid expert Gretchen Benedix looks at 10 asteroid disasters from movies and TV and rates them based on realism. She also discusses scenes that show meteor showers and comet impacts. She looks at Armageddon (1998), Greenland (2020), Deep Impact (1998), Bruce Almighty (2003), Don't Look Up (2021), Salvation S1E1 (2017), Color Out of Space (2019), The Good Dinosaur (2015), Ice Age: Collision Course (2016), and The Expanse S5E3 (2020). Benedix is a cosmic mineralogist and astrogeologist in Perth, Australia. She is a professor at Curtin University, where she is a member of the Space Science and Technology Centre in the School of Earth and Planetary Sciences, and a fellow of The Meteoritical Society. Benedix is the author of multiple papers on astrogeology and specializes in extraterrestrial geology, geochemistry, and planetary science.