Meteorites

Meteorites landing

This fetches the meteorites landing dataset from the NASA as documented at https://data.nasa.gov/Space-Science/Meteorite-Landings/gh4g-9sfh/about_data

import pandas as pd

df = pd.read_csv('https://data.nasa.gov/resource/gh4g-9sfh.csv')

df.head()

	name	id	nametype	recclass	mass	fall	year	reclat	reclong	geolocation
0	Aachen	1	Valid	L5	21.0	Fell	1880-01-01T00:00:00.000	50.77500	6.08333	(50.775, 6.08333)
1	Aarhus	2	Valid	H6	720.0	Fell	1951-01-01T00:00:00.000	56.18333	10.23333	(56.18333, 10.23333)
2	Abee	6	Valid	EH4	107000.0	Fell	1952-01-01T00:00:00.000	54.21667	-113.00000	(54.21667, -113.0)
3	Acapulco	10	Valid	Acapulcoite	1914.0	Fell	1976-01-01T00:00:00.000	16.88333	-99.90000	(16.88333, -99.9)
4	Achiras	370	Valid	L6	780.0	Fell	1902-01-01T00:00:00.000	-33.16667	-64.95000	(-33.16667, -64.95)

df.tail()

	name	id	nametype	recclass	mass	fall	year	reclat	reclong	geolocation
995	Tirupati	24009	Valid	H6	230.0	Fell	1934-01-01T00:00:00.000	13.63333	79.41667	(13.63333, 79.41667)
996	Tissint	54823	Valid	Martian (shergottite)	7000.0	Fell	2011-01-01T00:00:00.000	29.48195	-7.61123	(29.48195, -7.61123)
997	Tjabe	24011	Valid	H6	20000.0	Fell	1869-01-01T00:00:00.000	-7.08333	111.53333	(-7.08333, 111.53333)
998	Tjerebon	24012	Valid	L5	16500.0	Fell	1922-01-01T00:00:00.000	-6.66667	106.58333	(-6.66667, 106.58333)
999	Tomakovka	24019	Valid	LL6	600.0	Fell	1905-01-01T00:00:00.000	47.85000	34.76667	(47.85, 34.76667)

df.fall.unique()

array(['Fell', 'Found'], dtype=object)

df.dtypes

name            object
id               int64
nametype        object
recclass        object
mass           float64
fall            object
year            object
reclat         float64
reclong        float64
geolocation     object
dtype: object