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.
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Meteorite Landings DatasetThe Meteoritical Society collects data on meteorites landings. This dataset, taken from public available NASA datasets, includes the location, mass, composition, and fall year for over 45,000 meteorites that have struck our planet.Dataset Variables:name: name given to meteoriteid: unique identifier given to meteoritenametype: Valid (typical meteorite) or Relict (meteorite that has been highly degraded by weather on Earth)recclass: classification given to meteoritemass (g): mass of meteorite, in gramsfall: Fall (meteorite's fall was observed) or Found (meteorite's fall was not observed)year: the year the meteorite fell or year it was foundreclat: latitude of meteorite's landingreclong: longitude of the meteorite's landingGeoLocation: a parentheses-enclose, comma-separated tuple that combines reclat and reclong
API using comprehensive data set from The Meteoritical Society that contains information on all of the known meteorite landings.
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"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"
This comprehensive data set from NASA contains information on all of the known meteorite landings. Data includes more than 40,000 sightings from the 1800s up to present day. Fields include: name, mass, year, lon, lat.
This week's dataset is a dataset all about meteorites, where they fell and when they fell! Data comes from the Meteoritical Society by way of NASA. H/t to #TidyTuesday community member Malin Axelsson for sharing this data as an issue on GitHub!
If you want to find out more about meteorite classifications, Malin was kind enough to share a wikipedia article as well!
meteorites.csv
variable | class | description |
---|---|---|
name | character | Meteorite name |
id | double | Meteorite numerical ID |
name_type | character | Name type either valid or relict, where relict = a meteorite that cannot be assigned easily to a class |
class | character | Class of the meteorite, please see Wikipedia for full context |
mass | double | Mass in grams |
fall | character | Fell or Found meteorite |
year | integer | Year found |
lat | double | Latitude |
long | double | Longitude |
geolocation | character | Geolocation |
@misc{tidytuesday, title = {Tidy Tuesday: A weekly social data project}, author = {R4DS Online Learning Community}, url = {https://github.com/rfordatascience/tidytuesday}, year = {2023} }
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SEM/EDS hyperspectral image dataset from the Murphy Meteorite The Murphy Meteorite (see https://www.mindat.org/locentry-787574.html) was discovered in Murphy, Cherokee Co., North Carolina, USA in 1899. It is iron-rich. Beam Energy: 15 keV Live Time/pixel: 0.003*4.0*4.0*0.7 Probe Current: 1.04 nA
07/19/2021 Version 1 Specific Heat Capacity Measurements of Selected Meteorites for Planetary Surface Temperature Modeling Sylvain Piqueux 1, Tuan H. Vu 1, Jonathan Bapst 1, Laurence A.J. Garvie 2, Mathieu Choukroun 1, Christopher S. Edwards 3 1 Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 2 Center for Meteorite Studies, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona 3 Department of Astronomy and Planetary Sciences, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona Journal of Geophysical Research Contact: sylvain.piqueux@jpl.caltech.edu This document describes data files presented with "Specific Heat Capacity Measurements of Selected Meteorites for Planetary Surface Temperature Modeling". The paper reports specific capacity measurements in Joule per kilogram per Kelvin, in contrast with the laboratory data files (Joule per gram per Kelvin, second column in each data file) kept in their original form. Temperatures (first column in each data file) are given in Kelvin. Data.zip contains three folders: /Appendix_1/: two data files used to generate the plots presented in Appendix. Data in Diamond_DeSorbo1953_Table2.txt originates from DeSorbo, W. (1953), Specific Heat of Diamond at Low Temperatures, Journal of Chemical Physics, 21(5), 876-880, doi:10.1063/1.1699050. Data in Diamond.txt has been acquired as part of this work. /Data/: 29 data files generated for this work for 28 meteorites. Allende is associated with two distinct files, Allende_CV3_Powder.txt for data acquired with a particulated sample, and Allende_CV3_Slab.txt for data acquired with a slab (see Figure 1 and related text in the paper). /Data_Ambient/: four data files for samples kept under ambient conditions (see Table 2, Figure 2, and related text in the paper).
This bundle contains fixed-width ASCII files of daily, raw cleaned measurements acquired by the Lunar Ejecta And Meteorites (LEAM) Experiment at the Apollo 17 landing site for the time span of 02 April through 30 June 1975. These data were extracted from NASA's original Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package (ALSEP) archive tapes, also known as ARCSAV tapes.
Fireballs and bolides are astronomical terms for exceptionally bright meteors that are spectacular enough to to be seen over a very wide area. The following table provides a chronological data summary of fireball and bolide events provided by U.S. Government sensors. Ground-based observers sometimes also witness these events at night, or much more rarely in daylight, as impressive atmospheric light displays. This website is not meant to be a complete list of all fireball events. Only the brightest fireballs are noted. A meteoroid is generally defined as an asteroid or comet fragment that orbits the Sun and has an approximate size between ten microns and a meter or so. Meteors, or "shooting stars," are the visible paths of meteoroids that have entered the Earth's atmosphere at high velocities. A fireball is an unusually bright meteor that reaches a visual magnitude of -3 or brighter when seen at the observer's zenith. Objects causing fireball events can exceed one meter in size. Fireballs that explode in the atmosphere are technically referred to as bolides although the terms fireballs and bolides are often used interchangeably. During the atmospheric entry phase, an impacting object is both slowed and heated by atmospheric friction. In front of it, a bow shock develops where atmospheric gases are compressed and heated. Some of this energy is radiated to the object causing it to ablate, and in most cases, to break apart. Fragmentation increases the amount of atmosphere intercepted and so enhances ablation and atmospheric braking. The object catastrophically disrupts when the force from the unequal pressures on the front and back sides exceeds its tensile strength. Objects causing fireballs are usually not large enough to survive passage through the Earth's atmosphere intact, although fragments, or meteorites, are sometimes recovered on the ground. The approximate total radiated energy in the atmosphere is provided in unit of Joules, a unit of energy given in kilograms times velocity squared, or kg x (m/s)2. An event with an energy equivalent of one thousand tons of TNT explosives is termed a kiloton (kt) event, where 1 kt = 4.185 x 1012 Joules. In the accompanying table, the total radiated energy is given but this is always less that the total impact energy. Peter Brown and colleagues have provided an empirical expression to approximately provide the total impact energy in kt (E), given the optical radiant energy in kt (Eo) (see: Brown et al., The flux of small near-Earth objects colliding with the Earth. Nature, vol. 420, 21 Nov. 2002, pp. 294-296). E = 8.2508 x Eo0.885 The accompanying table provides information on the date and time of each fireball event, its geographic location, its altitude and velocity at peak brightness, its approximate total optical radiated energy and its calculated total impact energy. The pre-impact velocity components are expressed in a geocentric Earth-fixed reference frame defined as follows: the z-axis is directed along the Earth's rotation axis towards the celestial north pole, the x-axis lies in the Earth's equatorial plane, directed towards the prime meridian, and the y-axis completes the right-handed coordinate system. http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/fireball/
This bundle contains fixed-width ASCII files of raw cleaned measurements acquired by the Lunar Ejecta And Meteorites (LEAM) Experiment at the Apollo 17 landing site for the time span of 01 March through 18 July 1976, which were the last 140 days of LEAM operation. These data were extracted from ALSEP normal-bit-rate Work Tape files.
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SAGE III Meteor-3M L2 Solar Event Species Profiles are Level 2 data files containing all the species products for a single solar event. The Stratospheric Aerosol and Gas Experiment III (SAGE III) obtains profile measurements of aerosol extinction, ozone, water vapor, nitrogen dioxide, nitrogen trioxide, chlorine dioxide, clouds, temperature and pressure in the mesosphere, stratosphere, and upper troposphere with a vertical resolution of 0.5 - 1 km resolution.SAGE III was a fourth generation, satellite-borne instrument and a crucial element in NASA's Earth Observing System (EOS) . The instrument was launched on the Russian Meteor-3M spacecraft in December 2001. The Meteor-3M mission, along with the SAGE III mission, was terminated on March 6, 2006, because of a power supply system failure resulting in loss of communication with the satellite.The newest SAGE mission, SAGE III on ISS, is scheduled to launch in 2015. Plans include sending a copy of the SAGE III instrument to the International Space Station aboard a commercial Space X flight.
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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.