Hollywood—which previously had explored the idea of the Earth and its population being potentially endangered by a collision with another heavenly body with the "When Worlds Collide" (1951), a film treatment of the aforementioned 1933 novel – revisited the theme in the late 1990s with a trio of similarly themed projects. "Asteroid" (1997) is a NBC-TV miniseries about the U.S. government trying to prevent an asteroid from colliding with the Earth. The following year saw dueling big-budget summer blockbuster movies "Deep Impact" (1998) and "Armageddon" (1998), both of which involved efforts to save the Earth from, respectively, a rogue comet and an asteroid, by landing crews upon them to detonate nuclear weapons there in hopes of destroying them.