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In article <6kodfd$1v4_002@primenet.primenet.com>, strait@primenet.com (Jim
Strait) writes:

>Another question.
>
>What was the name of the movie in which a Comet destroys Phoenix?  Who played
>
>the lead role?  How did he escape the comet?  

The film was called "Fire in the Sky." 

Richard Krenna was in it, among others. I think it was made in the late '70's,
as a final gasp of the wave of Irwin Allen disaster movies. It was
conspicuously made not long after Niven & Pournelle published "Lucifer's
Hammer," and about the same time as "Meteor" with Sean Connery was released.

I only caught parts of the telepic when it first aired, but it seems like
Krenna led a troop of boy scouts out into the desert and dug foxholes to get
them into the ground effect, under the air shock wave.

Of course this ignores the thermal pulse, the seismic waves, and the ejecta. 

On the other hand, getting the hell out of Dodge would be a generally good
strategy if the point of impact is known in advance.  The scope of the disaster
was greatly underestmated in the movie. The final blast was no bigger than the
one which created the Barringer Meteor Crater near Winslow.

Nonetheless, if somebody can find a copy on video, it would make a good event
for a local con.




Randall Whitlock
Phoenix Arizona
randwhit@aol.com

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