Space

Everything that ever fell from the sky

We've sent 7,000 rockets up. This is what came down on its own: every meteorite in the scientific record — 45,716 rocks from space, each dot sized by its mass. The bright embers were seen falling; the blue ones were found later, sometimes millennia later.

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 more records have no usable coordinates · Tap or hover any dot