Franklin Coen

Meteor

by Edmund H. North & Franklin Coen.

The Comet - millions of miles long from its flaming nucleus to the end of its fiery tail, blazes across the vastness of outer space - and slams into the asteroid belt.

The Meteor - a massive chunk of rock, five miles in diameter, ripped from the asteroid Orpheus...travelling at 30,000 miles an hour...aimed as precisely as a marksman's bullet at one small planet...Earth - where a handful of people have only six days in which to divert a missile with the striking force equal to two and a half million megatons of TNT.