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* ''[[Ace Combat 04: Shattered Skies]]'' (2001): In this [[combat flight simulation game]] for the [[PlayStation 2]] by [[Namco]], a [[railgun]] battery is used in an attempt to destroy a massive asteroid with limited success.
* ''[[Outpost (1994 video game)|Outpost]]'' (1994): The game's plot mentions how an attempt to divert the path of the asteroid ''Vulcan's Hammer'', on a collision course with Earth, using a nuclear weapon fails and instead causes it to break in two large pieces that strike Earth.
 
=== Other media ===
In the [[webcomic]] [[Schlock Mercenary]], humanity, after making contact with [[Milky Way|galactic]] society, builds large [[spacecraft]]s capable of deflecting [[asteroid]]s using contactless [[gravitation]]al manipulation and name them after [[List of impact craters on Earth|past extinction impacts]]. However, they are quickly appropriated by the military, who use them as mobile fortresses.
 
== See also ==