The book tells about comets, meteors and meteorites. They are considered as a global phenomenon, reflected in various forms of social consciousness: natural sciences, history, mythology, ethnography, etc. The religious-mystical approach to the interpretation of celestial phenomena is being debunked. Chapters: Interplanetary matter, Meteors and meteorites, Celestial arrows, thunderstones, shaggy stars and stellar showers, Astronomy of comets, meteors and meteorites.