The darkest day of Earth will be the finest hour of mankind. MEMBER REVIEW: This 2009 Sony miniseries starts with the greatest meteor shower in 10,000 years, as people across Europe and North America watch. As usual, the scientists are the first to realize, there is a meteor twice the size of the one that killed the dinosaurs, and it will hit the moon. Debris from the moon will hit the earth, and bad things could come of that. Of course, all of this is televised live. The moon is now 30,000 miles closer to earth, but stable. Weird tidal changes start, and scientists are baffled. There are also weird magnetic anomalies: compasses spin, car batteries are dead, geese fly south in the spring, phones cut out unexpectedly. Then static electricity goes wild all over. Gas stations explode. Seems the meteor was a fragment of a brown dwarf, remnant of a dead star. (what?!?) The mass of the moon was altered by the brown dwarf, to twice that of the earth, and the magnetic field of the moon was boosted a lot, and it has magnetic and gravometric implications for earth. Hence all the weirdness. Scientific teams are assembled at the Pentagon to figure everything out. The orbit of the moon is more elleptical, and it is getting closer to the earth with each pass. Then gravity goes wild. "If the electromagnetic energy is strong enough it will override gravity." "We have no other choice, you cannot hide from gravity." They make a last ditch effort to fix things, but it goes wrong. Then they do a last, last ditch effort, and it turns out ok, but with casualties. To be fair, the acting is good and the non scientific stuff is pretty plausible. But the science is total garbage. At the end, the moon is in two pieces, but it is orbiting fine. Yeah sure.