Saricicek fireball over eastern Turkey

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A night fireball filmed over Bingol province broke up and rained stones on the village of Saricicek. Scientists documented 343 stones, the first recorded fall of a howardite, a meteorite type linked to the asteroid Vesta.

Sources

  1. PressSyrian refugees join meteorite search in eastern Turkey (opens in a new tab)Hurriyet Daily News / 2015-11-22
  2. OtherThe Saricicek howardite fall in Turkey (Meteoritics and Planetary Science, 2019) (opens in a new tab)Aperta (TUBITAK ULAKBIM repository) / 2019

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