List Price: $39.95; Format: VHS; Release Date: Jun 1998; Rating: Not Rated; Length: 150 minutes (Color); UPC: 743452024834. Condition: Brand New. STILL FACTORY SEALED. Same design as that shown here. Synopsis: All three volumes of the COSMIC TRAVELERS SERIES, exploring the dangers of speeding big rocks hurtling towards earth. Includes Comets and Asteroids, Sudden Impact: Meteors, and Final Target: Planet Earth. Comets and Asteroids: Comets, with their characteristic elongated vapor tails have fascinated star gazers throughout time. Asteroids, which are small, minor planets, have been discovered mainly through high powered photography. The film uses 3-D animation, computer-generated images, and deep space photography to reveal some the secret lives of asteroids and comets. The dramatic story of their previous collisions with the earth is presented, along with NASA's plans for protecting the earth from future impacts. Sudden Impact: Meteors: Some things, like meteors, move through space a little faster than some other things, like the planet Earth. Learn about the meteors that have always proved fascinating to humans as they rocket across the galaxy and sometimes go crashing into the earth. Thank goodness for our planet's atmosphere that burns up so many of the "falling stones" before they can do real damage. The program points out that damage is possible, and on a big scale, too. Final Target: Planet Earth: What's the chance that an asteroid or comet is on a collision course with planet Earth? What's being done to detect objects that could obliterate us? How much of the sky has been searched? You'll find answers to these and other provocative questions in Final Target: Planet Earth, a 50-minute documentary that discusses NASA's current and future plans for dealing with objects that could destroy life as we know it. With the aid of state-of-the-art 3-D animation, computer-generated images, and deep space photographs, experts from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory detail plans of sending unmanned or robotic spacecraft on missions to locate, observe, and investigate the comets and asteroids that threaten our planet. A highlight of the program includes a description of the protection and survival scenarios being developed in anticipation of a catastrophic collision. Priority Mail delivery for this item costs $20.00 at the request of a buyer. Otherwise, the shipping rate given here applies to orders shipped via Media Mail within the U.S. only. Orders consisting of multiple purchases packaged together ship by any of these delivery methods at a discounted rate, usually for only $1.00 per additional item plus the shipping fee for the first item (determined to be the one with the highest delivery charge). International buyers: please contact us with your destination country for applicable base shipping rates. Multiple purchases that are packaged together save shipping costs for you, too! Payment is expected within two weeks of placing your order for the first item within a shipment. Paypal is preferred, but money orders and checks (either personal or cashier's) are also accepted. Orders typically ship within 48 hours of PROCESSED payment, excluding weekends and holidays. Inquiries from all shoppers are responded to promptly and courteously. Buyers are encouraged to ask questions prior to placing orders, as all sales are final unless the product you receive differs significantly from that which was advertised here in terms of either the product itself or its promised condition. In other words, "buyer's remorse" does not qualify for a refund. Exceptions are made only in the event that a buyer is willing to return at his or her own expense an unopened, BRAND NEW item for a refund of the original purchase price only. No original shipping costs will be refunded, unless we are at fault for sending you the wrong item or misrepresenting the product and/or its condition. This hasn't happened yet, but if it does: you are guaranteed a refund of the purchase price, the original shipping fee, PLUS the cost to ship the item back to us. Thank you for looking!