The rules

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The Impact has a VERY strict time construct, to which you must adhere. Here are the story beats BEFORE our story begins…

Zero hour: Amateur astronomer James Anderson spots the asteroid from his home observatory in Alice Springs, Australia. He immediately puts in a call to NASA.
One hour in: Four other amateur astronomers from the dark side of the planet confirm the Asteroid, provisionally named KT-1887.
Two hours in: NASA verify and confirm the size, trajectory and estimate ‘the impact’. They debate action to take.
Two hours and fifteen minutes in: The White House is called and information relayed to William Jones, chief scientific advisor to the President.
Two hours and thirty minutes in: The President is pulled out of a meeting on agricultural policies and briefed on the impending threat.

Two hours and forty five minutes in: The President addresses the nation and planet. ‘An asteroid the size of New York city will impact in the Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of Africa, in 97 minutes, it will destroy all life on earth aside from microbes. The blast will take just over one hour to travel around the planet…’
Four hours and twenty one minutes in: Impact in the Atlantic Ocean. The physical impact will be felt planet wide, mostly experienced as a small earthquake. The blast wave from the impact will take one hour to circulate the planet.
Five hours: Total annihilation of civilization and the end of our story as the blast wave comes full circle on the opposite side of the planet.