Asteroid

小行星和彗星在地球生命史上扮演着重要的角色。小行星撞击墨西哥湾很可能导致恐龙灭绝。巨大的潮汐和火风暴毁灭了所有的生命。根据基督教日历，现在是 2067 年。火星和木星之间的小行星带刚刚发生了碰撞，导致一颗小行星进入地球的引力范围。它正不可阻挡地接近这颗蓝色星球。由于地球人民一直在互相争斗，他们错过了建立全球防御系统来抵御来自太空的危险。一台扫描仪记录下了这颗小行星，并立即向英美联盟总统发送了信息。专家判断，小行星撞击地球的概率为 50%。人们计划用火箭、氢弹或激光枪射击这个天体，使它偏离轨道，但都失败了。小行星的体积似乎威胁着人类的生存。知情者困惑地望着夜空。但就目前而言，地球上还是一片祥和......

作曲家: Otto M. Schwarz
乐器: Concert Band
原文简介:
Asteroids and comets have played an important role throughout the history of life on earth. It is quite probable that the dinosaurs have been exterminated by an asteroid's impact in the Gulf of Mexico. Huge tidal waves and fire storms wiped out all life. This is the year 2067 according to the Christian calendar. A collision has just taken place in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter and caused an asteroid to enter the earth's power of gravitation. It is instoppably approaching the blue planet. As its peoples have been fighting each other continuously, they missed the building of a global defence system against dangers coming from space. A scanner records the asteroid and immediately sends a message to the President of the Anglo-American Union. The probability that the asteroid will hit the earth is judged 50% by the experts. Plans are made to shoot the celestial body with rockets live with hydrogen bombs or laser guns in order to throw it off its track, but they fail. The asteroid's size seems to threaten the existence of mankind. Those in the know stare at the night sky in bewilderment. But for the time being, there is still peace on earth...