Asteroid expert Gretchen Benedix looks at nine 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 asteroid scenes from "Armageddon" (1998), "The Good Dinosaur" (2015) and "The Expanse" S5E3 (2020). She also rates comet impacts from "Greenland" (2020), "Deep Impact" (1998), "Bruce Almighty" (2003), and "Don't Look Up" (2021). Benedix also rates the realism of a meteorite in "Color Out of Space" (2019), and a meteor shower in "Ice Age: Collision Course" (2016).
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.

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