Cosmic Fireballs
214 million years ago a gigantic meteorite broke up and impacted Earth
2001-10-01 | 52 minutes
Plot Summary
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.
Cast
Recommendations
Similar Movies
-
To Mars by A-Bomb: The Secret History of Project Orion
-
James May on the Moon
-
The Silent Pulse of the Universe
-
Universe the Cosmology Quest
-
In the Shadow of the Moon
-
Starman
-
Black Holes: The Edge of All We Know
-
A Year in Space
-
Hypotézy
-
Armageddon: The Future of the Planet is at Stake
-
The Voyager Odyssey
-
One Strange Rock
-
Who's Out There?
-
Death Dive to Saturn
-
Asteroid Hunters
-
The UFO Movie THEY Don't Want You to See
-
Feeling Right Now
-
The Wonderful: Stories from the Space Station
-
Space Junk 3D
-
Roving Mars