Cosmic Fireballs (2001)
• October 1st, 2001 • 0h 52min
Documentary
Overview
214 million years ago a gigantic meteorite broke up and impacted Earth. 65 million years ago, the impact that killed the dinosaurs occurred where the country of Belize stands today. 200 thousand years ago early humans were walking and died when they were hit by a 40 meter wide meteorite hit South Africa creating a 1.4 km wide crater. This meteorite fragment, the largest ever found hit Namibia 80 000 years ago and more recently a major impact occurred in Toungouska, Russia in 1908. Every year 10 000 tons of meteoritic matter fall onto Earth in much smaller but not necessarily less influential pieces. This film will explore how the impact of these meteorites big and small through the ages have changed our world and what they brought from outer space with them that may have been the seed of life itself on Earth.
Make sure to check your pop-up blocker!!
Trailer
Similar Movies
Cielo
Released on: 2017-10-06
Documentary
The first feature from Alison McAlpine is a dialogue with the heavens—in this case, the heavens abov...
In the Shadow of the Moon
Released on: 2007-01-19
Documentary, History
Archival material from the original NASA film footage – much of it seen for the first time – plus in...
The Mystery of Chaco Canyon
Released on: 1999-01-01
Documentary, History
Chaco Canyon, located in northwest New Mexico, is perhaps the only site in the world constructed in ...
Shadow Chasers
Released on: 2000-09-23
Documentary
This feature-length documentary is a portrait of eclipse chasers, people for whom solar eclipses - a...
Exomars: The Hunt for Life
Released on: 2016-10-20
Documentary
Did Mars ever have life on it? To answer this question, Europe and Russia have launched a unique and...
Target... Earth?
Released on: 1980-07-28
Documentary, Science Fiction
Really strange documentary of Wheeler Dixon production quality on the Tunguska Event and the possibi...
Comet Collision
Released on: 2006-05-24
Documentary
Comets pose one of the greatest threats to life on Earth - a threat that can only be countered if we...
L'Aventure Rosetta : Aux origines de la vie
Released on: 2015-05-30
Documentary, TV Movie
It was November 12, 2014, at 5:03pm. Humanity had just accomplished a feat that will forever mark it...
Prehistoric Astronomers
Released on: 2007-01-01
Documentary
Cave paintings and lunar calendars exist in the caves and remains of prehistoric hunters studied rec...
Edge of Darkness
Released on: 2015-11-01
Documentary
The film features amazing scenes of places never before seen gathered by key space missions that cul...
The Hunt for Dark Matter
Released on: 2017-05-04
Documentary
CERN and the University of California-Santa Barbara are collaborating in the search for the elusive ...
Lunar
Released on: 2017-05-11
Documentary
In the year 1957 the cold war expands to space. The Soviet-Union sends Sputnik as the first manmade ...
The First Scientific Science-Fiction Film
Released on: 1993-01-01
Documentary
A short documentary about Fritz Lang's film 'Frau im Mond', and its relation to the science and hist...
The Weirdest Weather in the Universe
Released on: 2016-10-22
Documentary
Horizon visits state-of-the-art laboratories and uses CGI to recreate the science-fiction-worthy wea...
Roving Mars
Released on: 2006-01-27
Documentary
Join the Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity for an awe-inspiring journey to the surface of the myste...
Destiny in Space
Released on: 1994-01-17
Documentary
Travel alongside the astronauts as they deploy and repair the Hubble Space Telescope, soar above Ven...
Venus: Death of a Planet
Released on: 2021-08-28
Documentary, TV Movie
Billions of years ago, Venus may have harbored life-giving habitats similar to those on the early Ea...
Zero Gravity: Life on the International Space Station
Released on: 2022-01-01
Documentary
European Space Agency astronaut Alexander Gerst and his NASA colleague Reid Wiseman are launched int...
From the Atoms to the Stars
Released on: 2017-09-29
Documentary, TV Movie
An incredible travel through space and time between the walls of the Paris Observatory, which is cel...