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 Çanakkale University have taken the meteor away to be studied. But is has also thrown light on the universitys three-year investigation into meteors and their craters around the country. According to Canakkales 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 teams 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 Arýtürk when it rocketed to earth and landed at the Green Park complex, in Yeþilkent, 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 Arýtürk, 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 Arýtürk 1,800 dollars. Another American collector Stephan Grossman offered 500 dollars to buy the meteor. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Never Miss an Email Stay connected with Yahoo! Mail on your mobile. Get started! http://mobile.yahoo.com/services?promote=mail ______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list