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After intense investigation over the years, experts have finally found the records and evidence of the first known human to be killed by a meteorite. The registry has been credited to multiple documents found in the General Directorate of State Archives of the Presidency of the Republic of Turkey.
Newspapers cited a meteorite striking and killing one man while paralyzing another, on August 22, 1888, in the Sulaymaniyah region of Iraq. This, according to the researchers, is the first known death test for a meteorite impact.
The article, published in the journal Meteoritics and Planetary Science, claims that the governor of Sulaymaniyah reported to Abdul Hamid II (sultan number 34 of the Ottoman Empire). The region then fell under the largest Ottoman Empire.
While there is no information on the debris’ altitude, speed, size, and location, it is believed to travel from the southeast, hitting a pyramid-shaped hill at Sulaymaniyah.
The researchers cited: “This event is the first report that claims that a meteorite impact killed a man … supported by three written manuscripts reporting an event in as much detail to our knowledge.”
Given the fact that these documents come from government sources, there is little scope for further suspicion.
Before this case was revealed, the first known injury caused by a meteorite dates back to November 1954, when a grapefruit-sized Sylacauga meteorite struck a 34-year-old woman in the United States.
The meteorite crashed into the roof of his Alabama farm and hit Ann Elizabeth Fowler Hodges.
