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Meteorite Crater Guarded by Peru's Police after U.S. Citizens Attempt to Traffic it


Living in Peru
Wed, 03 Oct 2007 09:13 UTC
Peru's official government news agency reported yesterday that the crater where a meteorite fell in Puno, Peru was being guarded by 20 of Peru's National Police officers.

Chief of the police station, Major Victor Anaya stated that the officers had been placed near the meteorite landing site to keep a group of U.S. citizens from trafficking pieces of the meteorite.


Comment: It seems strange to call it a meteorite landing site, but that could be a translation issue.

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Mysterious Object (A Meteor) Falls From Minnesota Sky


Associated Press
Sat, 06 Oct 2007 16:38 UTC
Residents from the Twin Cities to the southwestern corner of Minnesota and into Iowa reported seeing a flaming object shooting through the sky Wednesday, and experts said they may have been watching a meteor.

Shortly after 2 p.m., people across the Twin Cities reported seeing a "metallic" object or "flaming ball" falling from the sky, according to broadcasters and emergency dispatchers who got hundreds of calls from people in Edina, Maple Grove and other suburbs. The callers said they saw the object traveling from the northeast to the southwest.
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Fireball seen in sky across Minnesota was meteorite

Tom Ford
Star Tribune
Thu, 04 Oct 2007 09:33 UTC
The blazing orange and yellow fireball that Minnesotans reported seeing flash through Wednesday afternoon's clear blue sky was probably a meteor.

And State Patrol officials are confident that the potential meteor did not transmogrify into a wood pallet that caused a minor disruption to drivers in Rogers. "It fell off a vehicle," patrol spokesman Mark Peterson said of the pallet, which was soon removed from Interstate 94 near Highway 101.
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Flood of UFO calls after meteor

Georgie Pilcher
The Herald Sun
Wed, 03 Oct 2007 00:00 UTC
The Herald Sun phones rang hot last night with reports of a UFO sighting in Melbourne.

People from Lilydale to Mt Eliza and Richmond to St Albans called about 9.45pm to say they had seen an amazing bright blue light in the sky with a long blue trail.
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Meteor lights up the sky

Mario Xuereb
The Age
Wed, 03 Oct 2007 12:23 UTC
A GREEN-HUED meteor lit up the sky above Victoria last night, prompting calls to emergency services and astronomical groups.
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Brightest Meteor in 30 years lights up Finland Sky


Sott.net
Sat, 29 Sep 2007 16:39 UTC
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According to the Finnish astronomical association, Ursa, the brightest meteor to cross Finnish skies in 30 years was seen by many people in Lapland, some of whom placed frantic calls to authorities.

Glowing more than 100 times brighter than a full moon the exploding fireball may have weighed up to 200 kilograms.
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Mysteries remain over Peru meteorite impact

Jeff Hecht
New Scientist
Fri, 28 Sep 2007 08:11 UTC
Conspiracy theorists will be disappointed. The object that exploded and formed a crater that emitted mysterious gases in Peru on 15 September was a meteorite that hit soil where the subsurface water table was high, according to the first official report from geologists who have returned from the scene.
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Red fireball and explosion seen by many over Alaska

Scott Chirstiansen
Kodiak Daily Mirror
Wed, 26 Sep 2007 01:03 UTC
Several Kodiakans saw something fall from the sky Tuesday morning that may have landed in mountainous terrain on Kodiak Island. The incident prompted 911 calls and a helicopter search was launched from U.S. Coast Guard Air Station Kodiak, but no crash site was found.

The pre-dawn lightshow happened about 6:45 a.m. and could be seen from several places on Kodiak Island. Some witnesses described a light moving across the sky toward the Gulf of Alaska. Others saw an explosion and red tracers. The light was bright enough to be seen from Kodiak city and Chiniak, about 20 miles away across Chiniak Bay.
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Thompson Files: To save humanity

Loren B. Thompson
United Press International
Tue, 25 Sep 2007 16:51 UTC
Arlington, Virginia -- I know how the world ends, and it isn't with a whimper. You can see humanity's epitaph etched in advance by simply gazing up at the moon on any evening and observing the vast craters created by ancient asteroids hitting the lunar surface.

Earth has suffered many such impacts over its 4.5 billion year history. An extrapolation of lunar data suggests that there have been up to 22,000 asteroid collisions with the Earth creating craters a dozen miles in diameter or bigger. One such impact created the Chesapeake Bay, and someday another will wipe out humanity, assuming some other cataclysm hasn't claimed us first.

When a really big asteroid hits, it kills most of the life on Earth by generating a smothering cloud of toxic gases that blots out sunlight for decades. The bigger, more complex species -- like us -- tend to succumb first.

Comment: SOTT has already covered the asteroid/comet threat in its editorial, Forget About Global Warming: We're One Step From Extinction! and Laura Knight-Jadczyk shares her research on the topic in her book, The Secret History of The World and How To Get Out Alive. The question is, why are all these different news sites bringing the subject up NOW ?

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Cosmic propaganda alert! Hundreds of Peruvian fireball impact witnesses sick from tainted water, not meteor

Jason Mick
Daily Tech
Tue, 25 Sep 2007 10:17 UTC
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The impact crater in Peru
The cause of illness from meteorite impact was discovered to be decidedly not out-of-this-world.

A significant cosmic event occurred when a massive meteor struck on September 15th outside the farming village of Carancas, near Lake Titicaca. The meteor created an imposing eight meter (26-foot) deep, 20 meter (65 foot) wide crater. Almost immediately the object was ruled to be a meteor and not something of terrestial origin.

The massive crater emitted strange fumes, which made over 30 villagers violently ill, with headaches and nausea. Reports on the exact number of victims ranged from 30 to "about 200." Speculations on possible "out-of-this-world" causes were rampant.

Police blocked off the crater, and the villagers were transported to hospitals.

The director of the health ministry in the Puno region, Jorge Lopez, said none of the patients was in serious condition but that they would have to undergo blood and neurological tests as a precaution in three to six months.
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