Mystery Atlas1888 Sulaymaniyah Meteorite Fall
A fall of stones near Sulaymaniyah, in Ottoman-era Kurdistan (modern Iraq), on 22 August 1888, described in three Ottoman government letters as killing one man and paralysing another; no surviving specimen has been located, but a 2020 peer-reviewed analysis of the archival documents treats it as the earliest credible evidence of a meteorite death.
This is a knowledge-graph entry: what our data records about 1888 Sulaymaniyah Meteorite Fall and how it connects to the rest of the atlas. It does not have a full article of its own yet.
Connected to
How this topic links to the people, places, and ideas around it — drawn from our knowledge graph.
Events
1888 Sulaymaniyah Meteorite Fall is frequently compared to Sylacauga Meteorite Strike — Both are treated as the site's two strongest meteorite-casualty cases, one resting on official archival documentation without a surviving specimen, the other on a recovered, analysed fragment without a fatality.
Concepts & Beliefs
1888 Sulaymaniyah Meteorite Fall is an instance of Meteorite Fatality and Injury Claims — Documented in three 1888 Ottoman government letters analysed in a 2020 peer-reviewed study (Unsalan, Bayatli & Jenniskens); the strongest historical case for a meteorite-caused death, but no physical specimen survives to confirm it.