![[OC] 💫 Observed Meteorite Landings Across Europe (920 - 2010)](https://www.byteseu.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/cpj0mj9ab8vf1-1024x858.gif "[OC] 💫 Observed Meteorite Landings Across Europe (920 – 2010)")
An animated GIF showing the recorded meteorite landings, distinguished by observation or encounter (that is, someone saw the meteorite land or found it later).
From source dataset description: "This comprehensive data set from The Meteoritical Society contains information on all of the known meteorite landings."
- Source data from NASA. Publicly available online.
- Visualization created with the MOSTLY AI Assistant!
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* Source data from NASA. Publicly available [online](https://data.nasa.gov/dataset/meteorite-landings).
* Visualization created with the [MOSTLY AI Assistant](http://app.mostly.ai)!
oh no, you can clearly see a trend how the number of meteorites is increasing and how they land closer to humans (as they were found). The end is near!
Awesome!
Curious about the landings in other continents…
Funny how they land with greater frequency in areas where there is greater literacy.
I see one landing on my house -.-
For a moment I almost fell into the trap of thinking “hmmm, that’s interesting, I wonder why metiorite landings are more prevelant at lower latitudes, there must be some interesting science behind that”……
….and then I came to my senses and realised this was obviously just gonna develop into a population map over time. Still cool though!
[https://xkcd.com/1138/](https://xkcd.com/1138/)