Armageddon

Armageddon is a disaster/sci-fi-action about a group of blue-collar deep-core drillers who are sent by NASA to deflect an asteroid on a collision course with Earth. It was directed by Michael Bay, produced by Jerry Bruckheimer and released on Disney's Touchstone Pictures label. It stars Bruce Willis, Billy Bob Thornton, Ben Affleck and Liv Tyler. A novelization was written by C. Bolin, based on the screenplay by Jonathan Hensleigh, J.J. Abrams, Tony Gilroy and Shane Salerno and the story by Jonathan Hensleigh and Robert Pool. While in the middle of an EVA, the Space Shuttle Atlantis is struck by thousands of tiny meteoroids and explodes in space. Shortly after, an area of Earth from Finland to the southeastern United States is bombarded by more meteors. Several destroy landmarks and skyscrapers in New York City. NASA determines that these smaller objects were forced towards Earth by a much larger one the size of Texas, which will strike the Earth in 18 days causing total destruction... full article at wikipedia