Meteoritical Bulletin Data 2024/10

Description

• This dataset provides data scraped from the Meteoritical Bulletin Database available in October 2024.
• Raw csv data was further fixed and cleaned. Some additional attributes are added to improve usability.
• Raw data has missing csv attributes and therefore is not ready to use. Use the cleaned data instead.

The Data

Row Data

• CSV Headers:
• Name: The name of the meteorite or impact crater.
• Abbrev: The abbreviation used for the meteorite if any.
• Status: Official, doubtful, pseudo etc.
• Fall: Empty if the meteorite was found, Y, Yc if humans or instrumentation recorded the fall. Np if probable.
• Year: The year of the finding or recorded fall, or the age of the impact crater.
• Place: The place it was found. Some entries were found on Mars or on the Moon by rovers.
• Type: The type of the meteorite.
• Mass: The mass in mg, g, kg, or t.
• MetBull: The Meteoritical Bulletin publication number where the entry can be found.
• Antarctic: If the meteorite was found in Antarctica.
• Lat-Long: Coordinates.
• Notes: Notes left by curators if any.
• Link: The link to the Meteoritical Bulletin information for that entry.

Cleaned Data

• CSV Headers:
• Name: The name of the entry. Cleaned from asterisks.
• Abbrev: The abbreviation used for the meteorite if any.
• Status: Official, doubtful, pseudo etc.
• Fall: Fell or Found.
• Year: The year of the finding or recorded fall, or the age of the impact crater.
• Yea-Only: For records that have 2 years, only the first value was kept. Geological age of impact crater not used here.
• Place: The place it was found. Some entries were found on Mars or on the Moon by rovers.
• Type: The type of the meteorite. Cleaned from symbols.
• Mass: The mass in kg.
• MetBull: The Meteoritical Bulletin publication number where the entry can be found. Cleaned from symbols.
• Antarctic: If the meteorite was found in Antarctica. Not all Antarctic meteorites have this attribute.
• Lat-Long: Coordinates.
• Latitude: The latitude value only.
• Longitude: The longitude value only.
• Notes: Notes left by curators if any.
• Link: The joined link to the Meteoritical Bulletin information for that entry.