HISTORICAL FIELD ATLAS / 861–2026
Where the sky
met the ground.
Follow the recorded locations of meteorites whose fall was witnessed, from Japan in 861 to this year. Narrow the years or types, open a fall, and read the stories behind ten of them.
1,247 witnessed falls01 / WHEN THEY FELL
Every witnessed fall, decade by decade.
Click a dot to open a fall, or a column to see that decade on the map.
Witnessed falls, across the world.
Click a dot to open a fall.
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05 / FALLS WITH A STORY
Ten falls worth opening.
Each story comes from the Wikipedia article linked in its panel.
06 / FOUR KINDS OF METEORITE
What fell.
Shares of all 1,247 witnessed falls, and of their listed mass.
IN VIEW
Biggest, oldest, newest.
READING THE MAP
An archive of observations.
Every dot is one of 1,247 meteorites whose fall was seen and then recovered, as recorded in the Meteoritical Bulletin Database of the Meteoritical Society, saved on 25 September 2026. The page uses the names the Bulletin marks “Official” and lists as falls or, since 2015, as confirmed falls; probable falls are left out.
Coordinates come from the Bulletin where it gives them, and otherwise from NASA’s 2013 copy of the catalog. They identify a recorded location, not a full fall path. Masses are the total known weight and may be rounded.
The four types group the catalog’s classes. Ordinary stones include the rare enstatite, R and K chondrites and stones that were never classified; once molten covers the achondrites, including those from Vesta and Mars. The map shows where falls were seen and recovered, which follows where people lived and looked, not where meteorites land. The ten stories come from the Wikipedia articles they link to.