Deep Impact - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

[melinda]

One of the N.A.S.A. officials in the movie is played by Gerry Griffin, who is a former N.A.S.A. Flight Director. Griffin presided over the Apollo 12 mission, and later became Director of the Johnson Space Center in Houston.

[jesse]

One of the trailers for the film showed President Beck saying in his first address to the nation that two comets are heading to Earth. In the actual movie however, only one comet is heading to Earth, but a space mission to destroy it accidentally splits it into two pieces that are also heading for Earth.

[oscar]

Just before the movie's release, astronomers announced that the asteroid 1997 XF11, about one mile across, will impact the Earth at a speed of over one hundred thousand miles (one hundred sixty-one thousand kilometers) per hour at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, October 26, 2028, greatly boosting ticket sales. Just after the movie's release, a new orbit (based on a sighting from many years before) predicted that 1997 XF11 will miss by six hundred thousand miles (nine hundred sixty-five thousand kilometers).

[liam]

The final shot of the film shows the United States Capitol Building in Washington, D.C. undergoing reconstruction after it was destroyed by the tsunami.

[harry]

A giant object from space struck the general area of the Eastern Seaboard where "Biederman" impacted in the film. Hitting the Norfolk, Virginia vicinity, it created the huge, now-buried, Chesapeake Bay impact crater.

[oscar]

This film included Elijah Wood's first onscreen kiss.