- basic information such as name, date, time, country, state, district, exact coordinates, total weight, number of pieces, recovery circumstances of all known 31,191 individual meteorites
- meteorite synonyms and pairing information
- literature references to recent publications on 31,000+ individual meteorites
- images database: 2,067+ pictures of main masses and type specimens, incl. field photos of about 1,300 hot-desert finds
- the published classificational data, e.g. chemical group, structural type, subtype classification, shock and weathering stage, mineralogical and textural features
- 43,800+ mineral chemistry data: olivine, pyroxene, plagioclase composition, etc.
- 1,961 + bulk chemical analyses of 1,356+ stony meteorites (mainly wet chemical analyses)
- almost complete set of 91,000+ major, minor and trace element data for about 3,950 stony-, stony-iron- and iron meteorites (up to 78 elements)
- 50,100+ noble gas isotope data: He, Ne, Ar isotope concentrations and ratios
- 9,300+ cosmogenic radionuclide data: 26Al, 10Be, 53Mn, 36Cl, 41Ca, 21Nec activities
- 934+ terrestrial ages, mainly based on 14C- and 36Cl activity data
- 2,982+ published oxygen, nitrogen, carbon, and hydrogen stable isotope data
- 3,445 induced and natural thermoluminescence (TL, NTL) data of about 1,750 stony meteorites
- physical properties: 1129+ porosity and density data of stony and stony-iron meteorites
- repositories of material: information on 71,433+ meteorite specimens in 708 repositories
- repositories of prepared sections: 21,946 records
- catalogues of about 630 meteorite collections can be retrieved and printed
- statistical utilities: calculations of annual falls/finds, classification/weight statistics, shock stages listed by type; country group statistics
- bibliography on meteoritics, comprising about 87,158 references to literature on meteorites, planetary geology (Earth's Moon, Mars, Venus, Mercury, Asteroids), origin of the solar system, impact cratering, tektites, meteors, meteoroids, IDPs, exobiology, general planetology and comets, published between 1491 and 2005, with abstract text and object names (e.g., meteorite names, lunar rock sample IDs) if available.
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