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Researchers have a sci-fi movie plot point as a plan to deal with a “city killer” asteroid on a potential 2032 collision course with the moon. The team, which includes NASA scientists, published a Sept. 15 paper outlining their idea to use nuclear bombs to destroy the 300-foot asteroid named “2024 YR4.” Fans of the 1998 film Armageddon, starring Bruce …

In a plan ripped straight from the script of the 1998 movie “Armageddon,” scientists have suggested a simple, if violent, method of dealing with a troublesome asteroid. Just nuke it. But in this case, it’s not Earth that is the celestial body under threat. And the plan definitely would not require sending Bruce Willis and Ben Affleck on a harrowing …