On September 19, 2007, a meteor, 20m (c.63 ft.) in diameter struck teh town of Caranacas, Puno Region, Peru (near the Bolivian border). For more information, check out the following information:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7001897.stm
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/09/070921-meteor-peru.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_Peruvian_meteorite_event
What is unusal is that for a meteor of the nature provided an impact that would have devastated everything for 100 km would have been predicted. Furthermore, a nauseous gas has been blamed on sickness in local residents around the site of the impact. What if it had hit with a normal impact, with the blast resembling a thermonuclear weapon? What are the implications for the United States, the European Union, Russia, et al.?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7001897.stm
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/09/070921-meteor-peru.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_Peruvian_meteorite_event
What is unusal is that for a meteor of the nature provided an impact that would have devastated everything for 100 km would have been predicted. Furthermore, a nauseous gas has been blamed on sickness in local residents around the site of the impact. What if it had hit with a normal impact, with the blast resembling a thermonuclear weapon? What are the implications for the United States, the European Union, Russia, et al.?