Registered meteorites that has impacted on Earth visualized

Posted by Andrei Macsin on March 11, 2015 at 7:00am

Guest blog post by Analytic Girl

See niche chart using Tableau, produced by the Meteoretical Society. Below is a screen shot. The original chart is interactive (you can zoom in, etc.)

Download entire data set: it's a 7MB spreadsheet consisting of 34,513 meteorites, last updated in 2012, with the following fields:

place
type_of_meteorite
mass_g
fell_found
year
database
coordinate_1
coordinates_2
cartodb_id
created_at
updated_at
year_date
longitude
latitude
geojson

Useful to make forecasts, broken down by meteorite size.

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