9th April 2006

Meteorites and Human Development Index

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Two Google Earth discoveries tonight, both from GoogleEarth Hacks via the OgleEarth blog.

According to WikiPedia:

The UN Human Development Index (HDI) is a comparative measure of poverty, literacy, education, life expectancy, childbirth, and other factors for countries worldwide. It is a standard means of measuring well-being, especially child welfare. The index was developed in 1990 by the Pakistani economist Mahbub ul Haq, and has been used since 1993 by the United Nations Development Programme in its annual report.

Download the HDI as a GoogleEarth overlay.

2nd discovery was this download that shows the 26,000 known meteorite hit locations on our planet. There are 4 around Lubbock, where I live, mostly found during the 1930s.

Incredible.

On this day..

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