I thought is was poor too. Why is it that the meteor / asteroid always crashes into the US or Mexico?
At least it is vastly better than the even more abysmal "Meteor" of 1979 - and it has Sean Connery, Henry Fonda, Karl Malden and Natalie Wood!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meteor_(film)
If you didn't see this 2009 version last night, you can read about the dismal plot at;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meteor_(TV_miniseries)
IMO, the only one or thing that should have been murdered should have been the producer, director or even the writer Alex Greenfield.
Another point. When did they ever use "
algorithms" to do orbits in the solar system? Surely this should have been from the calculated orbital elements made by several actual observations? (The error they seek would be in the accuracy of 'dem elements or in the perturbations!
A crashing bore!
Note : They call the asteroid 114 Kassandra (not a meteor, actually) Statistics on this appear at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/114_Kassandra