I also tried the “Wabar” link but it is also a bust. In the 1970’s there was a National Geographic article about a contributing author who was taken by some Saudi’s to find and iron meteor in the Rub al Kali (Empty Quarter). They finally located it. It was at least 4 feet in diameter and 2 to 3 feet thick. Much too heavy to take home. It was sitting in a crater type depression around 200 feet in diameter. Local tradition was that it destroyed a sinful city (echos of Soddom and Gommorah).
I am wondering if this was from a more recent strike, but that perhaps the whole Empty Quarter was sterilized several thousand years ago by a strike that left the biblical and local stories of “sin city”. Any info out there?
There wasn’t a strike, as it turned out, which destroyed a “sin city”. During the Middle Ages there was a quake, and the town was heavily undermined with storage cellars, hidey-holes, and that kind of thing. The impacting object they found fell in the last hundred years or so. :’(