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Meteorite
Crash in Peru
People watch a crater
in Carangas, Puno, Peru, Monday, Sept. 17, 2007, caused by a
supposed meteorite that crashed in southern Peru over the weekend
causing hundreds of people to suffer headaches, nausea and
respiratory problems, a health official said Tuesday, Sept. 18,
2007. (AP Photo/La Razon, Miguel Carrasco)
Local residents told
reporters that a fiery ball fell from the sky and smashed into the
desolate Andean plain near the Bolivian border Saturday morning.
However, experts are not completely certain that there was no
contamination, by the"toxic" fumes emanating from the crater, which
is some 65 feet wide and 15 feet deep.
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