* Astronomy

Didim 37°21'6.2"N 27°19'47.9"E
Didim, Aydin province, Turkey
Fall: 1 February 2007 at 5.30 p.m. local time
Ordinary Chondrite (H3-5 regolith breccia)
History: Many persons from Bodrum, Milas and Didim cities heard an enormous explosion followed by dozens of sounds like gunshots, several in a short interval. Other people as far as 200 km from Didim saw a fireball indicating that the meteorite fell in a southerly direction in the vicinity of the southwestern coastline on the Aegean Sea. Many rocks probably fell into the sea. One (D1) weighing about 500 g fell about ten meters from Mr Abdullah Aritürk at Yesilkent, a small district of Didim. He kept about half of it and gave 210 g to Prof. Mehmet Eminozel of Canakkale Onsekiz Mart University, Physics Department. Two other samples (D2 = 846 g and D3 = 2340 g) were found one after the other by Mr Hayati Ertugrul and collected by Ms Ozlem Kocahan, PhD student, and Prof. Ozel. Two small pieces of D1 and D2 were brought to the MNHN in Paris by Mr Mesut Kasikci, the only Turkish collector, living in France, who first informed academic research institutions of the recent fall.
Physical characteristics: All three samples (total mass: 3396 g) were totally covered by a thin black fusion crust.
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