Thread: meteorite strikes Peru, makes large crater
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Old 24-September-2007, 12:35 PM
JonClarke JonClarke is offline
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Originally Posted by Tube View Post
I vote space junk, as Devo's prescient lyrics from 1978 indicate:

"it's falling fast Peru too"...
Samples have been recovered indicating high iron content http://www.livinginperu.com/news-475...s-in-meteorite . I suggest it's now 99% certain this was a meteorite impact, the first crater known to have formed since Sikhote Alin in 1947.

Jon
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