Super Comet: After the Impact

Super Comet: After The Impact is a 2007 speculative documentary produced by ZDF and the Discovery Channel. It was directed by Stefan Schneider.

The two-hour production hypothesizes the effects on modern-day earth of a large comet impacting in Mexico near the same location of the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event, the ancient impact of a comet or meteor that is believed to have triggered the mass extinction of the dinosaurs.

The film alternates between interviews with climatologists and researchers and dramatized scenes following several groups of people as they attempt to survive in the days and months after the disaster: a separated family in France, a pair of scientists in Hawaii, a man who manages to survive for a period of time near the ground zero impact in Mexico, and a tribe in Cameroon.

DVD release

Discovery Channel released the film to DVD in North America on Dec.4, 2007.

External links

"Super Comet: After the Impact" at the IMDb
Discovery Channel Canada program details. (link broken as at Mar 2012)
Review in The New York Times
Review in The Hindu
DVD review at Digitally Obsessed

Planetary defense

Main topics	Asteroid Bolide Earth-grazing fireball Impact event List of meteor air bursts Meteor procession Meteor shower Meteorite Meteoroid Near-Earth object Potentially hazardous object

Defense	Asteroid impact avoidance Asteroid close approaches Earth-crossing minor planets Gravity tractor Ion Beam Shepherd Damage scales Palermo scale Torino scale

Space probes	AIDA Asteroid Redirect Mission Dawn Deep Impact Halley Armada Hayabusa Hayabusa 2 PROCYON NEAR Shoemaker New Horizons OSIRIS-REx Rosetta Philae Stardust

NEO tracking	ATLAS Catalina Sky Survey LINEAR LONEOS NEAT NEOSSat NEOCam NEODyS OGS Telescope Orbit@home Pan-STARRS SCAP Sentinel Space Telescope Sentry Spacewatch WISE

Organizations	B612 Foundation Japan Spaceguard Association Meteoritical Society NEOShield Spaceguard The Spaceguard Foundation Space Situational Awareness Programme Planetary Defense Coordination Office

Potential threats	1950 DA 1994 WR₁₂ 101955 Bennu 2002 MN (410777) 2009 FD 2010 RF₁₂ 99942 Apophis

Films/video	The End of the World (1916) When Worlds Collide (1951) Gorath (1962) The Green Slime (1968) The Paradise Syndrome (1968) A Fire in the Sky (1978) Meteor (1979) NOVA: Doomsday Asteroid (1995) Asteroid (1997) Deep Impact (1998) Armageddon (1998) Judgment Day (1999) Post Impact (2004) Deadly Skies (2006) Super Comet: After the Impact (2007) Impact (2009) NOVA: Last Extinction (2009) Meteor Storm (2010) HORIZON: Asteroids–The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (2010) Melancholia (2011) NOVA: Meteor Strike (2013) NOVA: Asteroid: Doomsday or Payday? (2013) Impact Earth (2015)

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