Akyumak

Seen to fall in 1981 in Turkey · 50 kg recovered · Iron, IVA

Akyumak is the second-heaviest of the 11 falls recorded in Turkey. It is the heaviest of the four Iron, IVA falls.

Group: Iron meteorites
Recorded position: 39.917° N, 42.817° E

The map is centred on Akyumak. Rings every 200 km; numbers match the table below.

Nearest recorded falls

The closest recorded fall to Akyumak is Erevan, 149 km to the east. Within 250 km lie two other recorded falls.

#	Fall	Year	Class	Recovered	Distance
1	Erevan	1911	Howardite	107 g	149 km east
2	Kulp	1906	H6	3.7 kg	228 km north-east
3	Indarch	1891	EH4	27 kg	329 km east
4	Grosnaja	1861	CV3	3.5 kg	468 km north-east
5	Yardymly	1959	Iron, IAB complex	150 kg	479 km east
6	Alta'ameem	1977	LL5	6 kg	531 km south

What Iron, IVA means

Iron, IVA is the label for an iron meteorite of chemical group IVA, defined by its nickel and trace-element content. Akyumak is one of 48 iron meteorites among the observed falls. The nearest other Iron, IVA fall is Ningbo in China, 7,032 km away. In date order among Iron, IVA falls, the one before Akyumak is Ningbo (1975, China).

Grey ticks: all 1,063 falls. Dark ticks: the 48 falls in the group iron meteorites.

Akyumak in Turkey’s record

In date order Akyumak is number 8 of the 11 falls recorded in Turkey, which run from 1899 to 2008. The fall recorded before Akyumak in Turkey is Çanakkale (1964); the next is Sivas (1989).

Bigger dots carry more recovered mass.

The 1980s

Akyumak is one of 54 falls dated to the 1980s. Elsewhere, the record lists six other falls in 1981, among them Omolon in Russia, Machinga in Malawi, Gursum in Ethiopia.