Magnesia

Seen to fall in 1899 in Turkey · 5 kg recovered · Iron, IAB-sHL

Magnesia is the earliest of the 11 falls recorded in Turkey. It is the heaviest of the three Iron, IAB-sHL falls.

Group: Iron meteorites
Recorded position: 37.867° N, 27.517° E

The map is centred on Magnesia. Rings every 100 km; numbers match the table below.

Nearest recorded falls

The closest recorded fall to Magnesia is Sediköy, 59 km to the north-west. Within 250 km lie five other recorded falls.

#	Fall	Year	Class	Recovered	Distance
1	Sediköy	1917	L6	240 g	59 km north-west
2	Didim	2007	H3-5	3.4 kg	60 km south
3	Caratash	1902	LL6	8 g	84 km north-west
4	Kemer	2008	L4	5.8 kg	224 km south-east
5	Çanakkale	1964	L6	4 kg	229 km north
6	Domanitch	1907	L5	438 g	270 km north-east

What Iron, IAB-sHL means

Iron, IAB-sHL is the label for an iron meteorite of chemical group IAB-sHL, defined by its nickel and trace-element content. Magnesia is one of 48 iron meteorites among the observed falls. The nearest other Iron, IAB-sHL fall is Hassi-Jekna in Algeria, 2,658 km away. In date order among Iron, IAB-sHL falls, the one before Magnesia is Hassi-Jekna (1890, Algeria) and the one after is Muzaffarpur (1964, India).

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

Magnesia in Turkey’s record

By recovered mass Magnesia comes sixth of 11 there. The next fall recorded in Turkey is Caratash, in 1902.

Bigger dots carry more recovered mass.

The 1890s

Magnesia is one of 51 falls dated to the 1890s. Elsewhere, the record lists six other falls in 1899, among them Bjurböle in Finland, Allegan in the United States, Zomba in Malawi.