Meteorites (1947)

Re-enactment: An astronomer observes Biele's Comet through a telescope in 1846, consults a star chart and notes on the comet.

The comet, which has broken into two parts, in the eyepiece of the telescope.

Biele's Comet six years later, in the form of even more distant parts.

Astronomers observe the divided Biele's Comet in 1872. An astronomer looks through the eyepiece of a telescope.

The hand of an astronomer making a note of the absence and death of the comet.

Astronomers leave the observatory.

Astronomers from the observation deck visually observe the abundant fall of stars.

Stars falling from the sky (animation).

The planets Moon, Mars, Jupiter move in space.

View of the solar system with orbits of the planets (animation).

Comet in space.

The internal structure of a comet, the solid grains of sand that make up the comet (animation).

A comet breaking up and disintegrating under the gravitational force of a nearby planet.

A scattered stream of comet fragments in the universe.

Meteor showers and individual solid particles in outer space (animation).

The Earth passing through a meteor shower (animation).

Cosmic particles burning up in the Earth's atmosphere (animation).

The process of disintegration of a meteor that has entered the Earth's atmosphere (animation).

Staging and animation: people watching falling stars.

Silhouettes of a camel in the desert, a ship at sea, a flying airplane.

Falling stars against the background of the monument to Peter the Great and the Peter and Paul Fortress in Leningrad (animation).

A red-hot bolide rushes toward the surface of the Earth.

The bolide flies over a forest and breaks into pieces in the air (animation).

Staging: a smoking meteorite that has fallen from the sky.

A medieval scientist examines a fallen meteorite.

A photograph of the Muslim shrine - the Kaaba in Mecca.

Re-enactment: Muslims performing the Hajj worship the shrine in the Kaaba temple, a view of a black meteorite.

A meteorite chained in a temple that fell in Germany in 1514, people worship the meteorite as a gift from heaven (re-enactment).

A piece of a meteorite, clamped in the hand of a skeleton in an ancient Indian grave, discovered during excavations, archaeologists at the excavation site (re-enactment).

An archaeologist removes a meteorite from the hand of a skeleton, examines it.

The archaeologist's hands unfold the decayed cloth in which the piece of meteorite was wrapped.

The fall of the Tunguska meteorite in 1908, fountains of fire and clouds of smoke rise, trees fall (re-enactment and animation).

Photographs of fallen taiga at the site of the Tunguska meteorite fall, taken in 1928. Winter forest and country landscapes, small meteorites falling into snow (staging).

A piece of a meteorite falls onto ice.

The hand of a person picking up a piece of a fallen meteorite.

Specimens of meteorites in a display case of the Meteorite Museum of the USSR Academy of Sciences, installing a new exhibit in the display case.

A museum employee closes the display case.

Various meteorites on display at the museum with markings of their fall sites and types.

A meterite in the hands of a scientist with sharp corners smoothed out as a result of friction with air.

A smooth black crust formed as a result of solidification of the molten surface of the meteorite.

Meteorites on display at the museum.

A scientist examines a piece of a meteorite consisting of pure iron.

An example of the crystalline structure of one of the meteorites.

A scientist demonstrates meteorites, which are simple rocks made up of silicon, oxygen, and other known chemical elements.

A scientist near one of the meteorites on display at a museum.

A view of part of a museum hall.

A sample of a meteorite made up of pure iron in one of the museum display cases.

One of the meteorites on display at a museum.

A meteorite against the backdrop of an open window.

The moon is hidden behind clouds.