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Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds
2020 · Film · documentary · 98 min
Directed by Clive Oppenheimer, Werner Herzog
This remarkable journey across our planet and universe explores how meteorites, shooting stars, and deep impacts have awoken our wonder about other realms—and make us rethink our destinies.
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This was featured in Werner Herzogs movie "Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds"
> Jon Larsen, a Norwegian jazz musician and creator of Project Stardust, was able to show that it is possible to find micrometeorites in more populated areas. In a study published in January 2017 in the journal Geology, he and his colleagues catalogued more than 500 lustrous micrometeorites (and counting), all recovered from rooftops in urban areas.
https://www.sciencefriday.com/articles/up-on-the-roof-a-handful-of-urban-stardust/
He was featured in Werner Herzogs 2020 film, Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds.
I recommend the Werner Herzog’s documentary “Fireball” (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fireball:_Visitors_from_Darker_Worlds ) which has a segment with Jon Larsen and his process for capturing images of micro meteorites
His more recent doco Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds (2020)[0] was, for me, even more fascinating.
Also, his 1977 short La Soufrière[1] is set on an island where a volcano is about to erupt.
[0] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9203832/
[1] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076741/
Link to Into the Inferno: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4846318/
Link to the (online) paper Evolution and dispersal of snakes across the Cretaceous-Paleogene mass extinction
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-25136-y
p.s. Werner Herzog visits Chicxulub in his latest documentary, about meteors and comets and their effect on human cultures, Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds, which I thought was pretty great.
I just watched Werner Herzog's latest documentary (with vulcanologist Clive Oppenheimer) Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds[0] (2020) about asteroids, meteorites, comets etc and their impact on the Earth and human cultures past, present and possible future. Most of it consist of interviews with experts in the subject from around the world, showing them at work, e.g. with the Hawaiians that look out for asteroids on a collision path with Earth, and found ʻOumuamua. They go to the site of the Yucatan meteorite that killed the dinosaurs, go hunting meteorites in Antarctica etc. Maybe the most amazing bit was a sequence of photographs of micro-meteorites found in Norway. I thought it was great, highly recommended!
New to Herzog? Most of the user reviews on IMDb are complaining it's not the usual impersonal science program they'd evidently expected, so please don't make that mistake. There are a few segments about meteorites in myths/religions. Herzog's documentaries all kind of feel like anthropology, no matter the topic. He's fascinated in people, and celebrates us in all our weirdness. e.g. His 2016 documentary about the internet, Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World[1], was one of the best things on the subject I'd seen.
[0] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9203832
[1] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5275828