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Meteorite Landings
This comprehensive data set from The Meteoritical Society contains information on all of the known meteorite landings. The Fusion Table is collected by Javier de la Torre and we've also provided an XLS file that consists of 34,513 meteorites and includes 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
**5/14/13
Please find an updated data set from The Meteoritical Society that includes more recent meteorites. Under NameType, 'valid' is for most meteorites and 'relict' are for objects that were once meteorites but are now highly altered by weathering on Earth.
Complete Metadata
| @type | dcat:Dataset |
|---|---|
| accessLevel | public |
| bureauCode |
[
"026:00"
]
|
| contactPoint |
{
"fn": "NASA Public Data",
"@type": "vcard:Contact",
"hasEmail": "mailto:no-reply@data.nasa.gov"
}
|
| description | This comprehensive data set from The Meteoritical Society contains information on all of the known meteorite landings. The Fusion Table is collected by Javier de la Torre and we've also provided an XLS file that consists of 34,513 meteorites and includes 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 **5/14/13 Please find an updated data set from The Meteoritical Society that includes more recent meteorites. Under NameType, 'valid' is for most meteorites and 'relict' are for objects that were once meteorites but are now highly altered by weathering on Earth. |
| distribution |
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"format": "JSON",
"mediaType": "application/json",
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"downloadURL": "https://data.nasa.gov/docs/legacy/meteorite_landings/Meteorite_Landings.json",
"describedByType": "application/json"
},
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"@type": "dcat:Distribution",
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"downloadURL": "https://data.nasa.gov/docs/legacy/meteorite_landings/Meteorite_Landings.rdf",
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},
{
"@type": "dcat:Distribution",
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"mediaType": "application/xml",
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"describedByType": "application/xml"
},
{
"@type": "dcat:Distribution",
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"downloadURL": "https://data.nasa.gov/docs/legacy/meteorite_landings/Meteorite_Landings.csv"
}
]
|
| identifier | https://data.nasa.gov/api/views/gh4g-9sfh |
| issued | 2015-07-20 |
| keyword |
[
"airburstvisual",
"data-visualization",
"intermediate",
"model",
"outerspace",
"platform",
"spaceapps"
]
|
| landingPage | https://data.nasa.gov/dataset/meteorite-landings |
| modified | 2025-05-29 |
| programCode |
[
"026:009"
]
|
| publisher |
{
"name": "data.nasa.gov",
"@type": "org:Organization"
}
|
| theme |
[
"Space Science"
]
|
| title | Meteorite Landings |
