07-January-2006, 09:55 PM
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Order of Kilopi
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Join Date: Mar 2004
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First, August, 2001, Indian Express: Red rain was fungus, not meteor
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The Centre for Earth Science Studies (CESS) here on Saturday retracted its hypothesis that a streaking meteor triggered the rain.
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Later, June 2003, The Telegraph, Calcutta: Red rain sparked by Gulf dust cloud
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Analysing data from satellites and a laser radar, scientists at the Vikram Sarabai Space Centre in Thiruvananthapuram have found that the culprit was a dust cloud that originated in the Gulf.
On July 25, 2001, many places in coastal Kerala received coloured rain overnight and in the morning. The rainwater contained suspended particles and many elements, including carbon, silicon, calcium and magnesium. It was then believed that the water was coloured because of the presence of red spores of some species of fungus.
S. Veerabuthiran and M. Satyanarayana of the space physics laboratory at the centre have reported in the Indian Journal of Radio and Space Physics that the strange event was due to dust from the Gulf countries in combination with several meteorological phenomena.
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The cited paper came out days ago and raises some questions. I await the answers. That the red rain was seen over the course of as much as 60 days I think argues strongly against an atmospheric origin. I would think there's gotta be a source from Earth's surface somewhere and the particles were transported by wind. It's difficult to conceive of an atmospheric source sitting over the Kerala region for a couple months, slowly dropping the particles.
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