History Channel
A program for the History Channel in which four Laboratory researchers were interviewed will launch the Mega Disasters fall season. “Comet Catastrophe” is scheduled to air at 8 p.m., Mountain Daylight Time Tuesday, September 4, as the premier show for the series.
Produced by the writer/director Federico Capulino, the one hour program explores the nature of comets, their unique life-cycles and origins, the search for past impacts deep under Earth’s oceans, and the dramatic consequences for any future visits.
The program also contains interviews filmed in January 2007 with Laboratory researchers Bob Weaver of X-2, Doug ReVelle and Jon Reisner both of EES, and Bruce Masse of ENV-EAQ, as well as along with eight other scientists from NASA, Columbia University, and other research centers specializing in astronomy, geology, atmospheric physics, mythology, or environmental archaeology.
Also expected to be part of the program are Laboratory visualizations depicting a hypothetical comet impact off the Pacific coast near San Francisco.
A schedule of broadcast times is available through the History Channel Web page. Note: the times listed on the schedule are Eastern Daylight Time.
