Scores ill in Peru after "meteor crash"

**Analoguesat** · 20-09-2007

Hundreds of people in Peru have needed treatment after an object from space - said to be a meteorite - plummeted to Earth in a remote area, officials say.
They say the object left a deep crater after crashing down over the weekend near the town of Carancas in the Andes.

People who visited the scene have been complaining of headaches, vomiting and nausea after inhaling gases.

But some experts have questioned whether it was a meteorite or some other object that landed in Carancas.

BBC News - full story

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7001897.stm

**Salty25** · 22-09-2007

I'm no expert, but it looks too big to be a crater because, if it were, I would have thought a crater that size would have produced alot of debris from the impact (or whatever they call it). But I'm probably wrong and there's little Martian fish in the pond

**Topper** · 23-09-2007

Originally Posted by Salty25

I'm no expert, but it looks too big to be a creator

I thought you were paying off your student loan instead you appear to be imbibing alcohol.

The creator is probably where it came from but it's impact upon the earth created a crater
English degree

forget the har

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**dig deep** · 23-09-2007

Some big hole-in-one there

**Salty25** · 23-09-2007

Originally Posted by Topper

I thought you were paying off your student loan instead you appear to be imbibing alcohol.

The creator is probably where it came from but it's impact upon the earth created a crater
English degreeforget the har

I'm a crap typist, what can I say

**Topper** · 24-09-2007

Originally Posted by Salty25

I'm a crap typist, what can I say

yeah I'm the same I'll have to spell check every post from now on otherwise you'll get your own back

**Salty25** · 24-09-2007

Originally Posted by Topper

yeah I'm the same I'll have to spell check every post from now on otherwise you'll get your own back

Lol, I'll be monitoring like an obsessive

**Channel Hopper** · 26-09-2007

I'm just wondering why it's too big to be a crater

Craters are as big as the object in conjunction with the velocity that is directed at the impact site (wot it lands in)

-http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/tekton/crater_c.html

**Analoguesat** · 26-09-2007

From the pics Ive seen it looks like its landed in something soft like a bog or a marsh and gone "splat" rather than "boom"

**Channel Hopper** · 26-09-2007

Originally Posted by Analoguesat

From the pics Ive seen it looks like its landed in something soft like a bog or a marsh and gone "splat" rather than "boom"

It may have landed, but it wasn't from space.

**Analoguesat** · 26-09-2007

Aww You mean we aint going to get Roswell 2???

**Channel Hopper** · 29-09-2007

Originally Posted by Analoguesat

Aww You mean we aint going to get Roswell 2???

Didn't say that, UFO pilots like to buzz yokels which is why some of them end up in the dirt.

http://www.filecabi.net/video/crashing_ufo.html

***Saturlight*** · 27-10-2007

There's nothing stopping anything breaking through our atmosphere and crashing into the ground and omiting a deadly chemical or substance that could kill off the human race.

Just like the dinosaurs.

And with that thought, have a nice day.

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