September 24, 2007: Meteorite hole

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It's the Monday Neatorama collaboration image!



Last week a meteor crashed in remote Peru, and it made the news because about 200 people who ran over to figure out what happened, became slightly ill.

Now we have an image of the crater, via the Mail, and it doesn't look all that menacing. In fact they now think the sickness wasn't due to anything from the rock from space, carrying some sort of Andromeda Strain virus or something. They think it was just the gases and dust unearthed from the impact.



They need a redneck games belly flop competition. They now have the perfect diving pit for it.

Of course, when it comes to meteor impacts, nothing matches the massive crater in Arizona, which is nearly a mile wide.



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