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 were found later, sometimes millennia later. Tap or hover any dot.

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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