Sharon Allan is the only media person in town who is willing to discuss the issue with him. Voight is adamant that the people be told what is going to happen to Phoenix. Ultimately, Sharon asks Carol (Maggie Wellman), a reporter at David's newspaper with whom David is having an affair, to find out. David's wife, television station owner Sharon Allan ( Elizabeth Ashley), gets wind of the meeting, but is unable to get David to tell her what's going on. The President does order the nuclear warheads of a Minuteman ICBM to be launched into space aboard a Titan-Centaur rocket, so that an attempt can be made at destroying the comet.Īfter talking with the President, Governor Ritchie meets with a number of key people, including his chief of staff Elliott Kirkwood ( Kip Niven), insurance executive Paul Gilliam ( Lloyd Bochner), newspaper owner David Allan ( David Dukes), and emergency management officer Wayne Lustus ( William Bogert). Voight urges the President to order an evacuation of Phoenix and the surrounding area, but the President ultimately leaves that decision in the hands of Arizona's governor, Michael Ritchie ( Nicolas Coster). Astronomer Jason Voight ( Richard Crenna), a specialist in near-Earth objects, shocks the group by telling them that the comet will hit within 50 miles of Phoenix. Dreiser is summoned to see the President ( Andrew Duggan) at his vacation home, along with a number of other experts, to discuss the situation. The joy of finding the comet is short-lived, however, when it is determined that it may hit the Earth in just eight days. While reviewing pictures of the planet Jupiter, astronomer Jennifer Dreiser ( Joanna Miles) discovers a new comet streaking through space.
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