[meteorite-list] Offers pour in for Didim rock

[Mike Groetz]

http://www.voicesnewspaper.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=490


Offers pour in for Didim rock
Posted on Saturday, February 10 @ 17:54:57 EET by
editor  
 

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


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.

 Since the story broke, first by Voices, across Turkey
and the rest of the world, Arýtürk has been
overwhelmed with offers for a part of the meteorite.

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. He now will keep one half of
the meteor in a special cage made for it; and the
other half is for sale!
 

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.



We interviewed Abdullah Arýtürk at his house. Arýtürk
said that he slept with the meteor at nights and that
it was a present from God. 


Arýtürk stated that he would evaluate the claims but
because he could not part with his beloved meteor he
had split it in two. 

  

He said: “I will have a special cage made for this
meteor and keep it there until my last breath. A lot
of people around me have told me to sell it, but Ý am
unable to spare it. Ý wanted at least half of it to
stay with me.”


The drama unfolded when a substance resembling a ball
of fire was seen in the sky above Bodrum Güllük Gulf
and Didim. The gendarme and police were overwhelmed
with notification calls and the worried farmers had
waited outside for hours.

The Astronomy and Space Sciences Department of Ege
University made an announcement stating the
possibility of this being a meteor and later it was
certainly determined as that.



The news published on the front pages of the national
papers had caused great excitement and fear all over
Turkey.



Following the news being released first in Voices and
then in national press, Arýtürk started getting
astronomical bids for the meteor that in the end, he
finally turned his phone off.   




 
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