Datasets:

lukeslp
/

witnessed-meteorite-falls

Error code:   StreamingRowsError
Exception:    CastError
Message:      Couldn't cast
latitude: double
longitude: double
name: string
description: string
category: string
date: timestamp[s]
country: null
mass_g: null
meteorite_class: string
fall_type: string
licenses: list<item: struct<name: string>>
  child 0, item: struct<name: string>
      child 0, name: string
title: string
subtitle: string
isPrivate: bool
keywords: list<item: string>
  child 0, item: string
id: string
to
{'title': Value('string'), 'id': Value('string'), 'licenses': List({'name': Value('string')}), 'subtitle': Value('string'), 'description': Value('string'), 'isPrivate': Value('bool'), 'keywords': List(Value('string'))}
because column names don't match
Traceback:    Traceback (most recent call last):
                File "/src/services/worker/src/worker/utils.py", line 99, in get_rows_or_raise
                  return get_rows(
                         ^^^^^^^^^
                File "/src/libs/libcommon/src/libcommon/utils.py", line 272, in decorator
                  return func(*args, **kwargs)
                         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
                File "/src/services/worker/src/worker/utils.py", line 77, in get_rows
                  rows_plus_one = list(itertools.islice(ds, rows_max_number + 1))
                                  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
                File "/usr/local/lib/python3.12/site-packages/datasets/iterable_dataset.py", line 2690, in __iter__
                  for key, example in ex_iterable:
                                      ^^^^^^^^^^^
                File "/usr/local/lib/python3.12/site-packages/datasets/iterable_dataset.py", line 2227, in __iter__
                  for key, pa_table in self._iter_arrow():
                                       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
                File "/usr/local/lib/python3.12/site-packages/datasets/iterable_dataset.py", line 2251, in _iter_arrow
                  for key, pa_table in self.ex_iterable._iter_arrow():
                                       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
                File "/usr/local/lib/python3.12/site-packages/datasets/iterable_dataset.py", line 494, in _iter_arrow
                  for key, pa_table in iterator:
                                       ^^^^^^^^
                File "/usr/local/lib/python3.12/site-packages/datasets/iterable_dataset.py", line 384, in _iter_arrow
                  for key, pa_table in self.generate_tables_fn(**gen_kwags):
                                       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
                File "/usr/local/lib/python3.12/site-packages/datasets/packaged_modules/json/json.py", line 265, in _generate_tables
                  self._cast_table(pa_table, json_field_paths=json_field_paths),
                  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
                File "/usr/local/lib/python3.12/site-packages/datasets/packaged_modules/json/json.py", line 120, in _cast_table
                  pa_table = table_cast(pa_table, self.info.features.arrow_schema)
                             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
                File "/usr/local/lib/python3.12/site-packages/datasets/table.py", line 2272, in table_cast
                  return cast_table_to_schema(table, schema)
                         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
                File "/usr/local/lib/python3.12/site-packages/datasets/table.py", line 2218, in cast_table_to_schema
                  raise CastError(
              datasets.table.CastError: Couldn't cast
              latitude: double
              longitude: double
              name: string
              description: string
              category: string
              date: timestamp[s]
              country: null
              mass_g: null
              meteorite_class: string
              fall_type: string
              licenses: list<item: struct<name: string>>
                child 0, item: struct<name: string>
                    child 0, name: string
              title: string
              subtitle: string
              isPrivate: bool
              keywords: list<item: string>
                child 0, item: string
              id: string
              to
              {'title': Value('string'), 'id': Value('string'), 'licenses': List({'name': Value('string')}), 'subtitle': Value('string'), 'description': Value('string'), 'isPrivate': Value('bool'), 'keywords': List(Value('string'))}
              because column names don't match

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Witnessed Meteorite Falls - NASA Catalog

1,097 meteorites observed falling to Earth (1688-2013)

NASA meteorite catalog filtered to witnessed falls only. Unlike discovered meteorites, witnessed falls have documented fall dates, trajectories, and fresh samples uncontaminated by terrestrial weathering.

Dataset Structure

See demo_notebook.ipynb for data exploration examples.

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

# Load the dataset
dataset = load_dataset("lukeslp/witnessed-meteorite-falls")

# Or load from local files
import json
with open('data.json') as f:
    data = json.load(f)

Citation

@dataset{witnessed_meteorite_falls_2026,
  title = {Witnessed Meteorite Falls - NASA Catalog},
  author = {Steuber, Luke},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://huggingface.co/datasets/lukeslp/witnessed-meteorite-falls}
}

Distribution

GitHub: lukeslp/witnessed-meteorite-falls
Kaggle: lucassteuber/witnessed-meteorite-falls

Author

Luke Steuber

License

CC0-1.0

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