Scientists Doubt Meteorite Sickened Peruvians


	Scientists Doubt Meteorite Sickened Peruvians

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9-27-2007 10:51 AM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/80af797b-323a-4d60-be66-148446985611/0BF7EDE8-A1D5-4BD2-8F14-23225D5DD073/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/070919_peru_meteorite.html" href="http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/070919_peru_meteorite.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.space.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/070919_peru_meteorite.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.space.com/img/279883C3-F312-47F9-87E8-4F7E642BE5E1" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/070919_peru_meteorite.html">Scientists doubt
that the supposed meteorite strike that sickened some 200 residents of Peru last weekend actually involved anything from space</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/070919_peru_meteorite.html">some scientists actually suspect that
the event could have been some kind of geyser-like explosion rather than a meteorite
impact.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/070919_peru_meteorite.html">Many
of the reported features of the crater ('boiling water,' sulphurous
fumes, etc.) point to a geological mechanism of the crater formation," wrote
Benny Peiser, a social anthropologist at John Moores University, in a daily
newsletter that catalogues research and media coverage of space rock impacts
and other threats to humanity</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/070919_peru_meteorite.html">Pictures of
the crater show that the hole in the ground appears fresh, Grossman said, and
the debris strewn around it is consistent with a <A href="http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/mystery_monday_040412.html">meteorite
impact</A> but also could have been caused by digging.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/070919_peru_meteorite.html">And there
are no previous reports of noxious fumes emanating from meteorite remnants or
their craters</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/0BF7EDE8-A1D5-4BD2-8F14-23225D5DD073/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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