Meteorite Landings
The 300 heaviest rocks that fell from space, sized by mass — deserts and ice sheets are where we find them.
About this globe
Some of the heaviest meteorites ever recovered, from NASA's copy of the Meteoritical Society's records, sized by mass on a log scale. The map is really two maps: where rocks fall (everywhere, evenly) and where humans find them (deserts and ice, where dark stones stand out and nothing buries them).
Antarctica and the Sahara dominate not because they attract meteorites, but because they preserve them.
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"Meteorite Landings" folding paper globe — free from Folding Globes, https://foldingglobes.com/globes/meteorites · Data: NASA / Meteoritical Society
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