As long as you ’re not in the prompt landing itinerary , meteorites are really absorbing . Over the past one C , The Meteoritical Societyhas confirmed 606 eyewitnessed meteorite landings around the world . DesignerSebastian Sadowskimaps them all out in a greatinteractive infographicthat ’s tons of merriment , until you realize you ’re a meteorite ’s sit duck no matter where you live .
The infographic reveals some interesting datum : 1946 was the year with the greatest amount of meteorite impacts ( by weight ) , while the large single meteorite of the past C , a 50,000 pound monster that landed in Siberia , strike terra firma in 1947 . All that space rock hitting earth in the postwar geological era must have really put people on edge .
If you ’re looking to move somewhere with no meteorite story , Alaska has n’t had a exclusive eyewitness meteorite cover in the past century , though that ’s probably because the body politic has so few eyewitnesses . To rule out the meteorological past of your favorite part of the world , check out the full visualization here . [ Sebastian SadowskiviaPopSci ]
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