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Physicists on ‘Armageddon’: A nuke would have been a ‘cheap firecracker’ on an asteroid

An artist's animation illustrates a massive asteroid belt in orbit around a star the same age and size as our Sun. Scientists have dismissed adventure films like 'Armageddon' where the hero uses a nuclear bomb to save Earth from a giant asteroid, as too little science and a lot of fiction. (AFP Photo/)

When Bruce Willis used a nuclear bomb to save Earth from a giant asteroid in the movie Armageddon, the scenario had little science and a lot of fiction, physicists said on Tuesday. Willis’ nuke would have had as much impact on the rock as a cheap firecracker and was used so late that the…

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