Here are all the articles I found about the meteorite that felt in Peru:

Peruvian 'meteorite' strike provokes noxious gas attack

Villagers fall ill after fireball hits Peru

Scientist Confirms Meteorite in Puno, Peru is a Chondrite

Meteorite Lands in Puno, Peru Near Bolivia, Citizens Report Radiation Sickness

Meteorite makes 30-meter crater in Peru

Meteorite Crash in Peru Causes Mysterious Illness

Peru's Geologists and Physicists Sent to Study Crater left by Meteorite

Meteorite Blamed For Peruvians' Illnesses

Peru: Regional Health Director Reports on Health Near Meteorite Crash Site

Mystery illness Linked To Meteorite Explosion

Peruvians get sick from apparent meteorite crater

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"We have the right to know what really happened in Roswell in 1947"

I wouldn't be surprised if that meteorite had been slowed quite a bit by the air before crashing. Maybe the poisonous gas was caused by its vaporization, but I don't even know what poisonous substances are contained in meteors. Maybe a poisonous compound was made by the frictional heat. Could it have been a piece of a satellite?

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There are few alternative explanations on this:

- The meteorite has some poisonous substances;

- The impact site had some poisonous minerals close to upper crust;

- The locals hate meteorites.

- Well the sci-fi dream of alien virus!

Seemingly it could be anything: (courtesy image borrowed/stolen from cnn)

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Mandtugai!

I wouldn't be surprised if that meteorite had been slowed quite a bit by the air before crashing. Maybe the poisonous gas was caused by its vaporization, but I don't even know what poisonous substances are contained in meteors. Maybe a poisonous compound was made by the frictional heat. Could it have been a piece of a satellite?

I've read it was a carbonaceous chondrite, containing maybe some organic compounds, which were melted by the heat provided by the atmospheric friction. If it were a space junk object, some metallic parts should be found.
Tullio

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There are few alternative explanations on this:

- The meteorite has some poisonous substances;

- The impact site had some poisonous minerals close to upper crust;

- The locals hate meteorites.

- Well the sci-fi dream of alien virus!

I think of three more theories:

- Neither the meteor nor the upper crust had poisonous substances but when the two mixed the outcome was poisonous.

- It is some kind of mass hysteria. Someone said it was poisonous and then people started to think - "oh, god, am I affected too ? I feel so sick..." and they got sick because they think they are sick.

- There was already a terrestrial virus there (something like flu) and it had nothing to do with the meteorite. It is just a coincidence.

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"We have the right to know what really happened in Roswell in 1947"

Nice work, Joe666!

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"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." - Dr. Seuss

One more explanation:

According to ancient aztec myths meteorites are sign of doom so it also could be some psychological mass downswing something.

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Mandtugai!

It is getting more and more complicated. Now some scientists claim it wasn't meteorite at all.

Space.com: "Scientists doubt that the supposed meteorite strike that sickened some 200 residents of Peru last weekend actually involved anything from space.

Based on reports of fumes emanating from the crater, some scientists actually suspect that the event could have been some kind of geyser-like explosion rather than a meteorite impact."

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While others confirm it was really meteorite:

Foxnews.com:"Jose Mechare, a scientist with Peru's Geological, Mining and Metallurgical Institute, said a geologist had confirmed that it was a "rocky meteorite," based on the fragments analyzed."

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More about this topic:

Experts rule out radioactivity of meteorite in Peru

Peruvian Meteorite Has Sci Fi Twist

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"We have the right to know what really happened in Roswell in 1947"

I don't know the condition of the actual meteorite. If it had hit fast enough it would have broken to pieces or maybe partially mixed in with the ground. If the Peruvians are able to extract the meteorite and put it on display, it'll be sure as heck that some of the girls or women down there will find some kind of roughness pattern on that rock that most faintly resembles a human face. Then it'll be sure as heck that those girls will not say it looks like their brother, sister, friend, spouse, comedian or countryman, but of only one person: The one and only Jesus Christ. Oh, I guess they could make a Mary out of it. At any rate, they'll worship that shape on the rock. I see things like that often on our Spanish TV channel here, Univisión.

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It looks like that the meteorite vaporized water contaminated with some arsenic present in the Peru soil and people inhaled it with small and non lethal parts of arsenic, falling briefly ill.
Tullio

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Thanks you tullio

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"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." - Dr. Seuss

And I thought Rolf Mohr was joking when he said it on the Insomniac Games podcast... I can't believe it's real!

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