Movies that imagine an asteroid or comet catastrophically colliding with Earth always feature a main scene: a lone astronomer discovers a stray piece of space heading toward us, sparking panic and a heightened sense of existential dread as the researcher tells the wider world. On March 11, life began imitating art. That evening, at the Piszkéstető mountain station at the Konkoli Observatory near Budapest, Krisztián Sárneczky was looking up at the stars. Unhappy with the discovery of 63 near-Earth asteroids throughout his career, he’s been striving to find the 64…
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