Facebook X Reddit Email Save. In anticipation of the 25-year-anniversary of “Deep Impact,” Dr. Clark R. Chapman and his wife Y Chapman decided to rewatch the classic sci-fi disaster flick.

In the summer of 1998, Hollywood offered up not one, but two blockbuster films about asteroids hurtling towards Earth. Released on May 8 of that year, Deep Impact, directed by Mimi Leder, told a ...

‘Deep Impact,’ ‘Armageddon’: How two ’98 movies tackled doom from above 25 summers ago, filmgoers had their choice of cataclysmic comet movies — one with big stars and big noise, ...

First to arrive in Earth's orbit was "Deep Impact", followed two months later by "Armageddon." Like "Dante's Peak" and "Volcano" – a pair of disaster-tinged Hollywood doppelgangers that landed ...

Negative vibes were palpable at the end of the 20th century. Musician/philosopher Prince foresaw folks running from destruction with his classic "1999." There was widespread fear of a computer ...

In 2005, the Deep Impact spacecraft (no relation to the aforementioned 1998 movie) shot 100 kilograms of copper at the comet Tempel 1 to learn more about what comets contain on the inside.