Asteroid Expert Rates Nine Asteroid Disasters In Movies and TV | How Real Is It? | Insider

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. MORE HOW REAL IS IT VIDEOS: Paleontologist Rates 10 Dinosaur Scenes In Movies And TV Meteorologist Rates 7 Extreme Weather Scenes In Movies and TV Physicist Breaks Down The Science Of 10 Iconic Marvel Scenes ------------------------------------------------------ #Asteroid #HowRealIsIt #Insider Insider is great journalism about what passionate people actually want to know. That’s everything from news to food, celebrity to science, politics to sports and all the rest. It’s smart. It’s fearless. It’s fun. We push the boundaries of digital storytelling. Our mission is to inform and inspire. Subscribe to our channel and visit us at: Insider on Facebook: Insider on Instagram: Insider on Twitter: Insider on Snapchat: Movies Insider on Snapchat: Insider on TikTok: @insider Asteroid Expert Rates Nine Asteroid Disasters In Movies and TV | How Real Is It?