[meteorite-list] Didim's meteorite zooms towards university

From: Mike Groetz <mpg444_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2007 06:22:37 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID: <816965.51485.qm_at_web32908.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

Didim's meteorite zooms towards university

http://www.voicesnewspaper.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=558

THE location of the meteor which landed in Didim,
causing worldwide focus, has finally reached its
resting place ? a university laboratory.

Scientists at ?anakkale University have taken the
meteor away to be studied.

But is has also thrown light on the university?s
three-year investigation into meteors and their
craters around the country.

According to Canakkale?s Prof Dr Mehmet Ozel, the
university is presently conducting a wide-ranging
survey of meteors which have landed in Turkey ? of
which there are believed to be about 13.

As head of an eight-man team, the professor said they
had been able to locate five craters and meteors but
the others were still being sought.

He said the Didim meteor had helped to highlight his
team?s work and would hopefully attract more interest
from people who may have witnessed meteors or had
retrieved them innocently without knowing their full
scientific merit.

However, he did indicate that retrieving the Didim
meteor had not been to easy.

The meteor was claimed by Abdullah Ar?t?rk when it
rocketed to earth and landed at the Green Park
complex, in Ye?ilkent, last Thursday, after scores of
people across the Bodrum Peninsula reported to police
a ball of fire across the sky.

Prof Ozel said: ?We wanted that stone and we retrieved
it from him with much difficulty.?
Didim's meteorite zooms towards university

Collectors from as far as America have offered
astronomical prices to get their hands on the famous
meteor of Didim

Ar?t?rk, not eager to part from his meteor of which he
thinks to be a present from God, solved the problem by
splitting it into two.

American collector Robert Wesel, who read the news in
Voices has offered Ar?t?rk 1,800 dollars. Another
American collector Stephan Grossman offered 500
dollars to buy the meteor.




 
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Received on Sun 04 Mar 2007 09:22:37 AM PST