In September 2007 a meteorite crashed into a field near Carancas, Peru. Soon after many of the nearby residents were complaining of illness. The Peruvian government confirmed that over 500 families were affected and that they had serious concerns that the land around the crater may be highly contaminated. Since that time there has been very little follow up to this incident. There we supposed claims made by the Russians but other than that there has been scant information:
Peru Meteorite 'Causes Mystery Illness'
A meteorite has struck a remote part of Peru and carved a large crater that is emitting noxious odours and making villagers ill, according to local press reports.
A fireball streaked across the Andean sky late on Saturday night and crashed into a field near Carancas, a sparsely populated highland wilderness near Lake Titicaca on the border with Bolivia, witnesses said.
The orange streak and loud bang were initially thought to be a plane crashing. When farmers went to investigate, however, they found a crater at least 10m wide and 5m deep, but no sign of wreckage
The soil around the hole appeared to be scorched and there was a "strange odour", a local health department official, Jorge López, told Peru's RPP radio.
Later the farmers complained of headaches and vomiting. Police who went to investigate the crater were also stricken with nausea, prompting authorities to dispatch a medical team that reached the site today.
"The odour is strong and it's affecting nearby communities. There are 500 families close by and they have had symptoms of nausea, vomiting, digestive problems and general sickness," said Mr López.
At least 12 people were treated in addition to seven police officers who required oxygen masks and rehydration.
The farmers expressed fears that what appeared to be chunks of lead and silver around the site could contaminate the soil.
A member of the National Academy of Sciences, Modesto Montoya, told the state press agency that a fallen meteorite did not present any danger unless it hit some structure on impact.
"None of the meteorites that fall in Peru and make perforations of varied sizes are harmful for people, unless they fall on a house," he said. Another meteorite fell to Earth in Arequipa province in June. - www.guardian.co.uk
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Is Peru Meteorite a Signal the World is Coming to an End?
The Russians say the meteorite was a downed US war experiment containing radioactive material. Others, including scientists, think the world as we know it will soon come to an end because we are under attack.
Something strange happened in Peru. A fiery object fell from the sky. Stunned residents said they tracked it to a fresh hole in the earth that was more than 60 feet wide, 15 feet deep, filled with boiling water and steaming with noxious fumes.
The local officials confirmed through tests that a “rocky meteorite” created the crater. But meteorite experts all around the world disagree.
Russians are calling it as an American space war experimentation that went out of control. Pu238 is used as a power source for new generation American military satellites, that much is true. And Pu238 can cause water to boil. It also glows. Locals said in the early reports that the crater was glowing.
Water was seen boiling in the crater. Pu238 also causes radiation sickness when it combines with dust and is inhaled. Many local doctors in Peru reported symptoms that sound like radiation sickness.
But something more happened. The crater has started shrinking. That is the strangest thing ever seen. It is not terrestrial technology that creates and shrinks a crater. It does not seem to be an American satellite knocked down by the American space war experimentation as claimed by Pravda.
According to many scientific think-tank, it is an extraterrestrial UFO that has entered the earth’s crust to establish bases below the continental crust. They normally use the ocean. But this is perhaps first time in modern history the UFO has entered the crust in front of all open eyes.
People saw a fiery ball that struck the ground with astonishing speed. Scientific think tanks now say this phenomenon will repeat again and again from now on. The Peruvian mystery crater is the start of new era that can see the end of the world, as we know it between year 2012 and 2030.
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The last we heard was the following:
livinginperu - The area where a meteorite landed in Puno, approximately 800 miles from Lima, has been declared a National Cultural and Natural Heritage Site by the Regional Government of Puno, Peru, said the region's president, Pablo Hernán Fuentes Guzmán.
The regional president explained that the meteorite crater was being declared a part of Peru's heritage to preserve it and keep it safe from locals and foreigners that "want to get their hands on it".
Furthermore, Hernán Fuentes stated that these efforts were being made so that the meteorite crater would be protected against the strong rains during this time of year, which could cause the crater to disappear. A national university in Puno has been given the task of preserving the crater during the upcoming rainy season.
The meteorite, which was found to be a chondrite, landed in the town of Carancas near the Peru-Bolivia border on September 15, leaving a crater approximately forty feet in diameter.
The meteorite and its crater have attracted national as well as international attention. After a meteorite collector came to Peru from the US and admitted to having bought thee hundred grams of the meteorite, villagers began to guard the crater.
Fearing the loss of the crater to concerned villagers and the rainy season in Puno, the Regional President announced the crater would be turned into a tourist attraction in November.
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Video: Peru Meteorite May Rewrite The Rules
A meteorite which ploughed into the Peruvian countryside last year should have shattered and dispersed long before reaching the ground.
That is the conclusion of scientists who have been examining samples of the space rock and the 15m-wide crater it dug out in Carancas last September.
The discovery of a water-filled hole, following reports of a fireball in the sky, made headlines around the world.
Now experts say the event challenges conventional theories about meteorites.
This has nothing to do with the mass panic that famously followed the impact; rather it has to do with the science of space impacts.
Usually, only meteorites made of metal survive the passage through Earth's atmosphere sufficiently intact to scoop out a crater.
But the object which came down in the Puno region of Peru was a relatively fragile stony meteorite. During the fiery descent through Earth's atmosphere, these are thought to fragment into smaller pieces which then scatter over a wide area.
Yet pieces of the estimated 1m-wide meteorite are thought to have stayed together during entry, hitting the ground as one.
Details of the work were unveiled at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in Houston, Texas.
Surprising speed
Peter Schultz told the conference that the meteorite was travelling at about 24,000km/h (15,000mph) at the moment of impact - much faster than would be expected.
"This just isn't what we expected," said Professor Schultz, from Brown University in Providence, US. "It was to the point that many thought this was fake. It was completely inconsistent with our understanding of how stony meteorites act."
Typically, fragments shoot off in many directions as the meteorite hurtles towards the ground - the so-called "pancake" model of atmospheric descent.
Professor Schultz believes fragments from the Carancas meteorite, which crashed to Earth on 15 September last year, may have stayed within the speeding fireball until they struck the ground.
This might have been due to the meteorite's high speed.
At the velocity it was travelling, fragments could not escape the "shock-wave" barrier which accompanies the meteorite's passage through the atmosphere.
Instead, the fragments may have reconstituted themselves into another shape, which made them more aerodynamic. Consequently, they encountered less friction during their plunge to Earth, holding together until they reached the ground.
"Although [the meteorite] is quickly broken up, it is behaving like a solid mass," Professor Schultz told the conference.
Dr Thomas Kenkmann, from Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany, offered an alternative view of the Carancas impact. His modelling of the event suggests it was probably caused by a meteorite travelling at low speed and a slanting angle.
Under this scenario, the space rock would have broken into just a few pieces rather than many - the largest of which would have gouged the crater.
Some scientists, however, remain doubtful of either interpretation. After his conference talk, Dr Kenkmann was pressed by one scientist on whether a magnetic survey of the crater had been carried out to look for signs of an iron, rather than a stony, projectile.
Fact and fiction
The crater is located on a dry riverbed near Lake Titicaca, on the border with Bolivia. The 3m-deep depression filled with water from below ground in the first 15-30 minutes after the impact.
At the time, scores of local people who visited the crater complained of headaches, vomiting and nausea. Some commentators had speculated that a chemical reaction might have released toxins such as sulphur and arsenic. But mass hysteria is thought to be the most likely explanation.
Professor Schultz said he hoped his work would "distinguish fact from fiction".
He commented: "Reports about arsenic, bubbling [of water in the crater] and sickness were probably overblown. People were frightened, but some were also afraid they were under attack from a nearby country."
Eyewitnesses reported a cloud of dust travelling outwards from the impact site after the meteorite fell.
Reports of numerous livestock deaths are believed to have been exaggerated, though the researchers confirm that a bull's horn was ripped off in the impact.
Professor Schultz added that the Carancas event raised the possibility there were many other small craters caused by stony meteorites which go unrecognised.
Large buried iron meteorites are easier to detect, while pieces of stony meteorite become intimately mixed with terrestrial soil.
"Maybe there are more of these things and we just don't recognise them because they're rock. When these things get pounded into cement, you won't see them," Professor Schultz explained.
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