KIDS / SNEAK PEEK : FACT, FICTION AND MORE FOR THE ASTEROID-INCLINED.

The odds of you getting killed by an asteroid this week are something like 30 million to 1.

But the chance that you'll get caught up in the hype, that you'll hear something about a giant space rock smacking into the Earth is, now that you're reading this, 100 percent.

Annihilation from above is the disaster of the moment, thanks to a few recent comet sightings and a carefully marketed TV movie.

For the dinosaurs, asteroids meant the end of life on Earth. To us, the giant rocks hurtling through space are a good time. And the only thing more fun than thinking about the world getting blown up is learning about it.

So, in the interest of planetary safety, here are just a few ways to get your asteroid fix:

On top of the rubble is NBC's miniseries, ``Asteroid,'' (9 to 11 p.m. Sunday and Monday) in which - you guessed it! - a big piece of space debris takes out a major city.

Havoc ensues.

But by the time this airs, you may already have seen the Fox shock-documentary, ``Doomsday, What Can We Do?'' (8 tonight). Science buffs looking for a solar system full of dangerous facts should hang on until the National Geographic special, ``Asteroids: Deadly Impact'' (8 p.m. Feb. 26 on NBC).

Not surprisingly, NASA provides some of the best and most fun information about the possible end of the world.

The Asteroid and Comet Impact Home Page (http://ccf.arc.nasa.gov/sst) lists all the Near Earth Objects (NEOs) that could smack us, shows odds of certain types of impacts and tracks media hype on the subject.

Cool pictures, too. NASA's Near Earth Asteroid Tracking Page (http://huey.jpl.nasa.gov/spravdo/neat.html) is a little more technical, with graphs and numbers about 10,000 asteroids near our planet.

The best-case scenario of NEO impact and postapocalyptic life may be ``Night of the Comet.'' In this cheesy 1984 sci-fi film, a passing comet wipes out pretty much everybody on Earth - except a bunch of kids who get the whole planet to themselves. Unless you count the zombies. Fun ensues.

For more interactive destruction, a new CD-ROM game starring Bill Nye the Science Guy called ``Stop the Rock!'' puts you in charge of saving the world. Think fast. Use science. Save humanity from a meteoroid called Impending Dume.

The Griffith Observatory in Griffith Park has, among exhibits on the moon and the planets, plenty of stats on asteroids and meteoroids. Plus, they've got a picture of a woman who was hit by a meteor and survived.

In the early 1980s, when video games looked like the readouts on digital clocks, one of the most popular games was called Asteroid. You controlled this little ship, see, that looked like a triangle, and you had to blast all these floating space rocks. And now, as with most classic games, you can play Asteroid on your home computer. Download a souped-up version for Windows 95 (http://www.mindspring.com/mattf/super.htm) or a true-to-the-original rendition for Macintosh (http://ns.echo-sol.com/asteroids).