This week's dataset is a dataset all about meteorites, where they fell and when they fell! Data comes from the Meteoritical Society by way of NASA. H/t to #TidyTuesday community member Malin Axelsson for sharing this data as an issue on GitHub!
If you want to find out more about meteorite classifications, Malin was kind enough to share a wikipedia article as well!
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meteorites <- readr::read_csv("https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rfordatascience/tidytuesday/master/data/2019/2019-06-11/meteorites.csv")
| variable | class | description |
|---|---|---|
| name | character | Meteorite name |
| id | double | Meteorite numerical ID |
| name_type | character | Name type either valid or relict, where relict = a meteorite that cannot be assigned easily to a class |
| class | character | Class of the meteorite, please see Wikipedia for full context |
| mass | double | Mass in grams |
| fall | character | Fell or Found meteorite |
| year | integer | Year found |
| lat | double | Latitude |
| long | double | Longitude |
| geolocation | character | Geolocation |