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Researchers have finally uncovered credible evidence that someone died from the fateful fall of a meteorite, reports Science Alert.
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Meteorite killed a human, Turkish sources say
Multiple documents from August 22, 1888, and found in the General Directorate of State Archives of the Presidency of the Republic of Turkey, claim that a falling meteorite fell and killed one man, and then paralyzed another in what is now called Sulaymaniyah, Iraq.
Investigators say this is the first known proof of death from a true meteorite attack. And the documents also hint at supplemental meteorite death material hidden deep in the archives, awaiting its first reading in what could be more than a century.
It should be noted that Earth is not a human-centered fortress, and despite the emergence of the Anthropocene, it is also encouraging to note that millions of meteors per day hit Earth’s atmosphere. While most of them die, no one wants the few who manage to kill people. But with 17 meteors possibly making landfall every day, it will eventually happen.
That’s why the lack of recorded deaths from meteors puzzled many, as historical records have had nothing to say about it.
The Chelyabinsk meteor explosion did not kill anyone
Even the cataclysmic fall of the Chelyabinsk meteorite in 2013, which exploded dramatically into the atmosphere and rained chunks of up to 654 kilograms (1,442 pounds), killed no one; all reported injuries were from the shock wave, not the meteorite itself.
A 1951 article published in Popular astronomy He argued that the difficulty in providing historical evidence “does not stem from the paucity of apparently relevant incidents, but primarily from the lack of material evidence that the missiles involved in the accidents were genuinely meteoric and the inability to submit to critical questions, whether they are survivors or eyewitnesses to the sensational events described. “
A man died in an explosion in 2016, in India, and was widely reported as the first meteorite death. However, NASA experts contested that the explosion was not of extraterrestrial origin.
This means that our knowledge of meteorite deaths is extremely minimal; The only known meteorite victim is a woman named Ann Hodges, who was taking a nap on her sofa in 1954 when an allegedly powerful rock fell through the ceiling and crashed into her hip. The rock, once recovered, was confirmed to be from space. Hodges survived the incident.
Verification of death from meteorite impact
There is no space rock left to verify the 1888 incident with, although there was an earlier time, researchers can’t find it. However, the archival documents are compelling enough to be credible, according to the researchers.
They found three separate documents describing the incident. Recently transferred to a digital archive, the original copies were written in a difficult-to-translate Ottoman Turkish language, helping to explain why they were not recovered. Until now.
As the world spends more time than ever inside, researchers discover that the past has worlds within worlds of discovery, lurking in the curiosity of the best scientific minds in the modern world.
