Meteorite Causes Illness in Peru

eldavojohn writes "A meteorite struck in Peru on Saturday leaving cinders, rock & water boiling out of the ground. Villagers nearby reported headaches & vomiting and attributed it to the event. From the article, 'Seven policemen who went to check on the reports also became ill and had to be given oxygen before being hospitalized, Lopez said. Rescue teams and experts were dispatched to the scene, where the meteorite left a 100-foot-wide (30-meter-wide) and 20-foot-deep (six-meter-deep) crater, said local official Marco Limache.' It's not yet clear whether this is from the meteorite, gas trapped underground that was released or a chemical reaction between the two."

Comments

Headaches?

[smitty97]

If I got hit with a metorite, I'd have a headache too

/in Steven King voice:

[pimpbott]

Meeeteyer sheeit!

too much TV

[LM741N]

now that Britney has made her way on TV in S. America, there have been waves of vomiting and sickness.

The SCO meteorite?

[Ang31us]

Here's a picture of what it looked like as SCO streaked across the sky and made that big, noxious, radioactive hole in the ground! ;-)

Different facts, JPL?

[FozE_Bear]

Anyone else think it's odd that this article calls it a 10meter crater (30ft) but the Physorg article calls it a 30 meter crater? Was JPL involved in some metric conversions?

Re:Fungus is among us

[Anonymous Coward]

Anthrax? It's a good thing it didn't hit the US, otherwise we'd blame Al Qaeda for the attack and launch an invasion of space.

Goerge Bush: "This aggression will not be tolerated. Space terrorists hate us for our freedom. We're fighting them up there so we don't have to fight them down here."

Re:Fungus is among us

[TobyRush]

Let me know when the Space Spore Zombies show up...

Um, okay, but you're going to need to give us an e-mail address or something.

I'm not saying they've shown up yet, I just want to be prepared. Because when they do show up, and everyone is going to be running around and freaking out and trying to shoot space spore zombies with hastily loaded rifles and everything, they're going to be thinking, "Aw, crap, that one guy on Slashdot asked us to let us know when this happens, and we totally are letting him down!" But not me, man. When those zombies start clawing on my door, first thing I'm gonna do: I am going to LET YOU KNOW.