2.Director: Rudolph MatéStars: Richard Derr, Barbara Rush, Peter Hansen, Larry Keating
3.Identification of Colliding Worlds
Arriving within one year!
“There is no error!”
“Differential analyzer” = computer
3 billion miles away (33.2 AU)
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4.Colliding Worlds
Earth collided with moon early in evolution of the Solar System
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5.Pluto may be a captured world
Pluto, captured from the Kuiper belt
Inclined to the ecliptic
6.Kuiper Belt
30 to 50 AU (astronomical units, 93 million miles)
7.Plan for Escape
NOAH’S ARK
A FEW CAN BE SAVED
AUGUST 12
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8.The Great Escape
Rocket Ship to Safety at “Zyra”
Roller coaster takeoff!
Earth destroyed seconds after takeoff
Fuel gauge!
“Ten miles a second”
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9.Landing on Zyra
No heat shield
Use rockets to slow decent
Crash land on ice
Lush planet
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