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Evidence of this is found by Turkish and American scientists in the digitized files of the Turkish president.
The first person whose death was recorded by a meteorite has lived in an Iraqi village in the 19th century. Scientists from the United States and Turkey discovered the first documented evidence of such an incident in the archives of the President of Turkey, digitized several years ago, writes the Russian news site gazeta.ru.
Official science has no reliable evidence of such cases. Occasionally reports of such incidents appear, but in reality they turn out to be incorrect or false. For example, in 2016, Tamil Nadu, the first case of human death of a small meteorite in India, traveled the world. Indian media reported that on February 6, a small meteorite had fallen on the campus of a private engineering school. It caused an explosion that damaged the windows of nearby buildings and buses. The blast killed three people and injured a bus driver who was drinking water on the road.
Later, Indian astrophysicists who examined the crater after the explosion did not confirm that it was caused by a meteorite. After analyzing the images of the crater, NASA experts conclude that it may be the result of an improvised explosive device on earth.
The trauma of an Alabama resident following the fall of a meteorite on November 30, 1954, and the injury to several Urals by the Chelyabinsk meteor wave are also known.
The first reliably recorded case of human death by a discovered meteorite is now an incident in 1888. Scientists from the University of the Aegean (Izmir), their American counterparts from the Ames Research Center (NASA) and the SETI Institute have been able to find the description once in three sources.
The documents have been found in the Turkish State Presidential Archive among 5 million Ottoman documents that have been digitized in recent years.
The first document is a letter from the authorities of the city of Sulaymaniyah, now a city in eastern Iraq, stating the date of the incident: August 22, 1888, 8:30 p.m. Refers to the explosion in the atmosphere and the subsequent fall of various meteorites from Earth
The meteorite smoke trail is reported to have been moving towards the Delaware village, whose name is not present on contemporary maps of Iraq and may have changed over the decades, scientists say.
A similar phenomenon has been observed by residents of the Khurmal village, which is now called Gulambar. After an explosion in the area, the meteorites fell “like rain” for about ten minutes. As a result, one died and another person was injured, and then was paralyzed, the letter said.
The residents of the Delaware village at the same time “thank Allah” for not killing any of its inhabitants. However, the entire crop in the surrounding fields was destroyed, the letter said. At the same time, a meteorite sample from a local pasture was sent to the Ottoman Sultan’s palace.
The second letter also describes the event and refers to the dispatch of parts of the fallen meteorite to Sultan Abdul-Hamid II. According to scientists, it was not yet possible to find documents with the Sultan’s response, but they hope to find it with further study of the archives.
The third letter is dated October 18, 1888 and roughly repeats the description of the event. The local Pasha is reported to have sent a letter “with a stone fragment” to Mehmed Kamil Pasha, a statesman in the Ottoman Empire, who had served as Grand Vizier four times.
Scientists have been able to identify the approximate direction of the car in various signs and describe its flight. Meteoritics & Planetary Science magazine.
According to the authors, the fact that the meteorite message did not appear in the media, but in the official government correspondence that mentions the Grand Vizier, does not raise doubts about the authenticity of this event.
“This is the first story in history to use three written documents that describe the impact of a meteorite that killed a human being,” the researchers wrote. Scientists continue to work in the archives to find more evidence of this event.
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