Peru’s Meteor: Illness Explained, Invitation Extended

“Tests confirmed that the crater contained telltale magnetic fragments of a meteorite, and Peru’s Geophysics Institute recorded a large tremor in the area at the moment of impact, according to The Associated Press.

Secondly, the mystery illness is probably not due to “panspermic alien microbes” or other space-based bacteria, as much as some had hoped or feared, however unseriously. It came from the soil, a Peruvian researcher who has visited the site tells National Geographic:”

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