Strange news story on Yahoo News:
Mystery illness strikes after meteorite hits Peruvian village
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070918/sc_afp/peruhealthoffbeat
Residents complained of headaches and vomiting brought on by a "strange odor," local health department official Jorge Lopez told Peruvian radio RPP.
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.
"Boiling water started coming out of the crater and particles of rock and cinders were found nearby. Residents are very concerned," he said.
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This sounds like something out of a science fiction movie. Any theories on what it might be?
I wonder if anyone has bothered to point a Geiger counter at it yet?