Meteorite Landings by US Government | Demographics and Population Studies

About this Dataset

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.
Organization: National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Last updated: 2025-05-31T07:38:42.410653
Tags: airburstvisual, data-visualization, intermediate, model, outerspace, platform, spaceapps

Tables

Table 1

@usgov.nasa_gov_meteorite_landings.table_1

1.25 MB
45716 rows
10 columns


CREATE TABLE table_1 (
  "name" VARCHAR,
  "id" BIGINT,
  "nametype" VARCHAR,
  "recclass" VARCHAR,
  "mass_g" DOUBLE,
  "fall" VARCHAR,
  "year" DOUBLE,
  "reclat" DOUBLE,
  "reclong" DOUBLE,
  "geolocation" VARCHAR
);