Around midday Saturday, villagers were startled by an explosion and a fireball that many were convinced was a plane crashing near their remote village, in the high Andes department of Puno in the Desaguadero region, near the border with Bolivia.
Residents complained of headaches and vomiting brought on by a "strange odour," local health department official Jorge Lopez told Peruvian radio RPP.
Seven policemen who went to check on the reports also became ill and had to be given oxygen before being taken to hospital, Mr Lopez said.
Rescue teams and experts were dispatched to the scene where the meteorite had left a crater 30m wide and 6m deep, said local official Marco Limache.
"Boiling water started coming out of the crater and particles of rock and cinders were found nearby. Residents are very concerned," he said.
I remember reading someplace, probably the bible about wormwood falling from the sky and poisoning 1/3 of the rivers.Maybe this is just a prelude of something bigger yet to come?
Anonymous Coward User ID: 8356 9/18/2007 12:49 AM
Re: Villagers in southern Peru have been struck by a mysterious illness after meteorite makes fiery crash in their area
The geology of the region might lend to boron, arsenic or any number of toxic minerals being superheated into gaseous form sickening the respondees. No big mystery.I hate these stories where there is a logical explanation but the story doesn't say so all the nutjobs have ammo. Are all journalists world-wide brain dead now?
Anonymous Coward User ID: 15418 9/18/2007 12:55 AM
Re: Villagers in southern Peru have been struck by a mysterious illness after meteorite makes fiery crash in their area
I'm guessing it's putting out a high level of radiation and causing sickness or possibly releasing some kind of toxic fumes.
Quoting: Anonymous Coward 8356
More than likely any toxic elements in the meteorite were boiled away in the atmosphere...its the local mieral content...radiation doesn't cause the symptoms described.
Puno is a very cool place. It's near Lake Titicaca and where the Uros tribe live on floating reed islands. The people make everything out of reeds. Furniture, boats, food...
The geology of the region might lend to boron, arsenic or any number of toxic minerals being superheated into gaseous form sickening the respondees. No big mystery.I hate these stories where there is a logical explanation but the story doesn't say so all the nutjobs have ammo. Are all journalists world-wide brain dead now?
Quoting: Anonymous Coward 15418
You should go check it out in person. Breath deeply of the aleged poison gas, no wait, better make that a slight wiff so as to not endanger your very last remaining brain cell.
Anonymous Coward User ID: 208180 9/18/2007 1:51 AM
Re: Villagers in southern Peru have been struck by a mysterious illness after meteorite makes fiery crash in their area
i feel so horrified, i've let my innocence die, you want to know why i cant be pacified, you made me bury something, i wont be sleeping tonight it seems so clear now what i must do, you're no immortal i wont let them deify you, they view you as the new messiah, they deify you."
from Disturbed "Deify", CD "10,000 Fists"
* New Life/Stray Dog User ID: 279402 9/18/2007 4:34 AM
Re: Villagers in southern Peru have been struck by a mysterious illness after meteorite makes fiery crash in their area
I agree, this is most likley local content vaporizing under heat and impact pressure. Only the guys on the field can trully know. If any of you are rich spoiled brats and can handle your own, jump on a plane and buy a gieger counter [edmund scientifics has them] and hazmat suit and go examine for your self and let us poor folks know your results.
Meteorite Lands in Puno, Peru Near Bolivia, Citizens Report Radiation Sickness
(LIP-ir) -- Peru's Andina News Agency reported today that Puno's Regional Health Directorate sent a group of specialists to the Carancas community in the province of Chucuito near Bolivia to take samples of a meteorite that supposedly landed in the area.
Jorge López Tejada, a representative for the institution, stated that an environmental cleaning crew was going to the area to take earth and water samples from the actual landing site and from surrounding areas.
"The samples will be tested in Lima, where the necessary equipment is available. We hope that results will be ready within 7days," said Jorge López Tejada.
In addition, Tejada stated that a health brigade, consisting of doctors and nurses would be sent to the landing site to aid people that had reported health problems after having gotten close to the supposed meteorite.
"Between 10 and 12 people have reported dizziness, migraines and in some cases vomiting. They assure that after having had close contact with the object the symptoms began," stated Tejada.
Furthermore, Tejada stated that check ups would be performed and that it had not been discarded that the symptoms could be related to the glowing object which fell from the sky. "They are healthy people, it could be (due to) radiation, we don't know, we are assuming, it's worth investigating. Things will be clearer tomorrow," stated Tejada.
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