[meteorite-list] Scientist Confirms Meteorite in Puno, Peru is a Chondrite

From: dean bessey <deanbessey_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:48:34 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <327195.47896.qm_at_web56114.mail.re3.yahoo.com>

Is this the same peruvian scientist who confirmed some
 months ago that shell fragments from an anti tank
mine were actually meteorites because they fell to
earth or something. (Remember thread some months ago
about peruvian nutcase who got mining claim on anti
tank mine crater? Come on you must remember - things
like that are to hilarious to forget). We havent herd
from him lately. Maybe he is to busy staking mining
claims to all evidence of the activities of the
sendero luminoso (A rebel group) from the 1980s.
Maybe the reason everybody got sick and threw up their
insides as green vomit was because they all got so
scared after seeing our resident nutcase trampling
toward them with arms waving with pieces of paper
saying stay away or else? (Maybe threatening to bring
the sendero luminoso back so he can stake more mining
claims)
This is just to funny. What is it with peru having act
2 of this entertainment so soon after act 1 earlier
this year.
Rolling over laughing
DEAN
PS:
For the record nobody would consider Puno an isolated
area. Puno is on the tourist route and almost all
tourists going to peru goes there.


--- Ron Baalke <baalke at zagami.jpl.nasa.gov> wrote:

>
> This just came out. I'm still highly skeptical that
> this is a
> meteorite.
>
> Ron B.
>
> --------------------------------------------------
>
>
http://www.livinginperu.com/news-4730-environmentnature-scientist-confirms-meteorite-puno-peru-is-chondrite
>
> Scientist Confirms Meteorite in Puno, Peru is a
> Chondrite
> Living in Peru
> September 18, 2007
>
> (LIP-ir) -- Peru's official government news agency
> reported this
> afternoon that scientists which went to the town of
> Carancas in the
> Region of Puno, Peru, have confirmed that the
> glowing object which fell
> from the sky on Saturday afternoon was indeed a
> meteorite.
>
> Volcanologist for Peru's Geological, Mining and
> Metallurgical Institute
> (INGEMMET), Luisa Macedo, confirmed that a chondrite
> meteorite had
> caused the 17 meter (55 foot) wide and 5 meter (16
> foot) deep crater
> when it landed on earth.
>
> It was reported that with the help of the
> Desaguadero Municipality, the
> water would be drained out of the crater to
> establish the exact size of
> the hole that was made by the chondrite meteorite.
>
> Macedo explained that the chondrite was not
> radioactive and did not have
> any toxic gases or substances which could be harmful
> to peoples health.
> On the other hand, Macedo stated that it had not yet
> been established if
> the water supply in the province of Chucuito had
> been contaminated or not.
>
> Aside from the analysis Macedo is performing, the
> National University of
> Altiplano, Peru's Nuclear Energy Institute, the
> National Institute of
> Natural Resources, the Ministry of Health and a
> Bolivian university are
> all taking part in the analysis of the area.
>
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