Voyage 45 - Project Fireball

Table of Contents

• Overview
• General Instructions
• Features
• Acknowledgements
• About Chingu

Overview

Meteorite strikes occur when the orbit of a meteorite travels close enough to the Earth to be captured by its gravity field. The U.S. National Aeronautics & Space Administration (NASA) maintains a dataset of all known (>45K) meteorite strikes and sponsors research on these events.

Our Voyage team will be using this data to create an app that will help anyone interested in these events explore this data in novel ways. Our app will summarize this data and will allow users to select subsets of it for more detailed analysis.

This will provide us with an opportunity to build Web Development experience dealing with large volumes of data, data analysis using statistics, and user queries.

General Instructions

Our team will use the requirements and specifications below, and define and manage our project following the Agile Methodology defined in the Voyage Handbook.

Once we reach MVP, we will start implementing optional features. To add our unique spin, we will present the website as a way to search for meteorites to use in crafting jewelry or other artistic endeavors.

Features

The following defines the minimum requirements and ideas for features we may implement to enhance this app, if time permits.

Structure

• This is a purely front-end application. No backend is required.
• Useful links and resources:
  • Meteorite Landings and Near Earth Objects
  • Public API

Styling

• In general, you will find these UI design principles helpful.
• Recommend using this resource for clean CSS

Functionality

• User can see a landing page containing the following components:

  • Search fields allowing them to customize the detail data display
  • A scrollable detail data display containing the meteorite strike history based on the search criteria.
  • A summary metrics component.

• Search Component

  • User will be able to filter data in the search component by any of the following:
    • Name
    • Year of strike
    • Meteorite composition (recclass)
    • Mass range (e.g. low to high, inclusive)
  • A 'Clear' button that's part of the search component. When clicked this will clear any search criteria and reset the detail data display and summary metrics to use the entire data set.
  • A 'Search' button in the search component to perform the search based on the user input. When the search finishes the detailed data display should be updated with the filtered results of the search operation.

• Detail Data Display Component

  • Displays one row for each meteorite strike in the data set.
  • If no search criteria have been selected then the summary metrics will be for all meteorite strikes.

• Summary Metrics Component

  • Displays the following metrics for the data that has been selected:
    • Total number of strikes
    • Average mass
    • Histogram showing the number of strikes by year
    • Histogram showing the number of strikes by meteorite composition (recclass).
  • If no search criteria have been selected then the summary metrics will be for all meteorite strikes.

Extras (TBD)

• Search Component
  • Allow search criteria to be saved across sessions and reselected from a dropdown
• Detail Data Display Component
  • Display a clickable button in the column heading to allow the user to sort in ascending or descending sequence based on that column.
  • Display a clickable button in the column heading to display a popup dialog with a definition of what data is contained in the column.
• Summary Metrics Component
  • In addition to the metrics for the selected data, also display these metrics for the entire data set. This should be suppressed if there are no search criteria so the display isn't duplicated.
    • Total number of strikes
    • Average mass
    • Histogram showing the number of strikes by year
    • Histogram showing the number of strikes by meteorite composition (recclass).
• General
  • Support dark/light mode
  • Allow the user options for customizing the font and font size

Acknowledgements

Thanks to NASA and its partners for open-sourcing this data. You can find more at NASA Open Data Portal.

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