Meteor
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- Year:
- 1979
- 108 min
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Outerspace.
Limitless and timeless.
Filled with cosmic explosions
and endless turbulence.
An infinite playground
forthat occasional blazing visitor,
the comet.
At first comets terrified man.
He thought they were signals
of impending catastrophe.
But he got used to them
and he gave names to them
and waited for them
to drop by like old friends.
This one has come from behind the sun,
moving across the heavens
at 108.000 miles an hour,
and has neverbefore
been seen by man.
The asteroid belt.
A vast junkyard
of metal and rock orbiting the sun
between Jupiter and Mars.
Thousands of fragments,
some as small as a fist
some as large as a city.
Twenty miles In diameterand undisturbed
forcountless generations...
...until now.
Give me the horn.
What do you want?
- Is Dr Paul Bradley aboard?
- Who's asking?
I've gotorders from NASA
to bring in Dr Paul Bradley.
Is he aboard? This is an emergency.
So's this. We're tryng to win a race.
We're going to have
to cutacross your bow.
All right goddammit. We're coming in!
Mr Sherwood told me to get you off
the boat and on your way to Houston.
There's a special jet for you.
- You would've cutacross my bow?
- Yes, sir.
I would've rammed you.
And gone straigh tto the bottom, sir.
Don't go away. I could be right back.
Dr Bradley,
it's good to see you again.
Good to see you again.
- You owe me $10.
- I do?
- I got my handicap down to 12.
- No wonder it's good to see me again.
- Yes?
- Bradley's here.
Good. Send him In.
It's yours. Mr Sherwood..
Oh, good to see you. Come in, come in.
- Sorry to do this to you.
- Not at all.
Yes, I did that I called Helen
and asked her to send your clothes.
Hello? Mr Sherwood.'s office.
I, uh...
I didn't know that you and she were...
- You've met General Easton.
- Once, in Washington.
- Good of you to come.
- Sam Mason, CAP commander.
Peter Watson, our flight director.
Put that down
and let me fix you a small Scotch.
A large one.
- Good.
- We could all use one, I think.
Why don'twe sit around the table?
Take your coat off.
- How big is your boat?
- Fifty-two feet
An awful lot's been happening here,
Paul. And none of it good.
Harry, I left NASA five years ago.
- Why am I back?
- Let me tell you.
Gentlemen, help yourselves.
Seven days ago, Palomar Observatory
reported the discovery of a new comet.
- General.
- Thank you.
Nothing unusual in that
They spot nine or ten every year,
either themselves
or other observatories.
But... it's where this one
seemed to be going.
- The asteroid belt.
- Go on.
When they called me, it was a couple
of hundred thousand miles from the belt.
Challenger II, our space probe to Mars,
was in the vicinity.
General Easton's son,
Tom, was commanding.
We got in touch with them,
and then we...
I...
...changed their programme.
That was last Friday.
Challenger II,
do you read me?
We read you.
How do you feel
Anything to break the monotony.
Whatdo you call slight?
Two days, four hours and 32 minutes.
What happens to our schedule?
Don't concern yourself, Tom.
We'll take care of everything.
- Mars will have to wait.
- Whatever you say.
- Where are we going?
- The asteroid belt.
- What for?
- A Comet's about to go through it.
- They go through all the time.
- It's a first for this one.
It was wrenched out of orbit
by Jupiter's gravitational pull.
- How big is this comet?
- 480 kilometres in diameter,
which makes its nucleus large enough
to do real damage if it hits anything.
It's headed straight toward Orpheus,
the big one in the centre.
Where do we park?
Park alongside Vesta,
about 25,000 kilometres this side.
before the comet.
We want all the information you can
give us on size and orbital elements.
- Take a few pictures?
- A lot of pictures.
We've already started things down here.
You'll change course in five minutes.
- Is my old man with ya?
- He's here.
- Tell him hello.
- Will do.
As I said before, that was last Friday.
Yesterday, Sunday morning,
at 1100 hours,
they started to pull up alongside Vesta.
- We got it?
- Yes, we've got it
- Can you zoom in on Orpheus for us?
- Can do.
Beautiful.
- Let's have some information.
- I'll take some measurements.
For the next hour and a half,
they read the belt for us.
Then what we were waiting for
finally appeared.
Magnetic field measuring zero.
It'll go straight through like salt.
It's gonna hit it!
- Get away from there.
- It's coming apart in a million pieces!
I don't think I can ever forgive myself.
- I should have figured...
- No guilt Harry.
- We'd all have given the same orders.
Nobody at the moment.
We'll have put out a release
right after this meeting.
Why am I here?
towards Earth, a pretty big one.
There are a lot of little pieces
with it and in front of it
It's the big one we're worried about
The figures haven't been worked out,
but six days from now we could be hit.
- We have to be prepared.
- That's why we put Hercules up there.
Will you let me finish?
I've convened a meeting at NASA
headquarters in Washington fortomorrow.
Lucas, Steinberg, Fillmore,
others you know will be there.
I want you to come to that meeting.
- I'll come to your meeting.
- We appreciate it Paul.
I've delayed a flight
You're leaving in one hour.
Up-to-date material on Hercules.
Something to read.
Your hotel room has been booked.
Gladys has yourexpense arrangements.
Why don't you stick a broom up my arse?
I vould sweep the carpet on the way out.
Haven't changed, have you?
See you in the morning.
Rob Samuelson to harbour...
Among the other nine who failed
to finish was Dr Peterson's Maverick,
who was disqualified
for crossing the line prior to start.
John Slabin's Mary Bee collided
with Arnold Parker's Swan.
Both suffered
sufficient damage to withdraw.
The big surprise
was Paul Bradley's Blithe Spirit,
which withdrew for no apparent reason
early in the race.
John Dunning
- Hello.
- it's late, I wanted to...
Paul. Where are you?
Why aren't you on the boat?
Uh, Washington.
- How are the kids?
- Jimmy's gota cold.
And Julie's bound to get it
and we're still fighting about homework.
Apart from that, they're fine.
- What are you doing in Washington?
- I'm not sure yet
I was phoning
to let you know where I am.
How are you?
Oh... Not bad, you know.
- Paul?
- Tell the kids I love them.
A chunk of Orpheus
A big one. There are a lot of little
pieces with it and in front of it.
But it's the big one
we're worried about.
The figures haven't been worked out,
but six days from now we could he hit.
Sorry I'm late.
You and everybody else.
- Let me tell you about that
- Either we're in the wrong room,
or a lot of brainpower's lost.
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