Every recorded meteorite

All 45,716 meteorites in the scientific record, on one map, sized by mass. The bright ones were seen falling; the rest were found later — so the map also shows where people went looking. Press play for the timeline.

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Data & source

Data: Meteoritical Society via NASA's open-data portal (snapshot ends 2013) · fetched — · this maps where meteorites were recorded, not where they fell — 13,529 records lack usable coordinates · deserts and Antarctic ice dominate because that's where dark rocks are easy to spot · dot size grows with the log of mass, pebbles to the 60-tonne Hoba