[TheForge] illness from meteor in Peru - Vanadium?

[David E. Smucker]

Here is an interesting take on your meteor Bruce

http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2007/09/meteorite-makes.html

Dave
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bruce Freeman" <FREEMAB at pt.fdah.com>
To: <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2007 9:20 AM
Subject: [TheForge] illness from meteor in Peru - Vanadium?


I read the symptoms and thought of vanadium poisoning.

Anyone know how much vanadium there might be in a meteorite?

Does this idea make sense?

Bruce
NJ

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Mystery illness strikes after meteorite hits Peruvian village Mon Sep 17, 
11:23 PM ET

LIMA (AFP) - Villagers in southern Peru were struck by a mysterious illness 
after a meteorite made a fiery crash to Earth in their area, regional 
authorities said Monday.

Around midday Saturday, villagers were startled by an explosion and a 
fireball that many were convinced was an airplane crashing near their remote 
village, located in the high Andes department of Puno in the Desaguadero 
region, near the border with Bolivia.

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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