[meteorite-list] Carancas to get a meteorite museum

[Darren Garrison]

http://www.livinginperu.com/news-5759-environmentnature-peru-investors-from-japan-build-meteorite-museum-puno

Peru: Investors from Japan to build meteorite museum in Puno

(LIP-ir) -- Peru's Geological, Mining and Metallurgical Institute (INGEMMET)
announced that Japanese businessmen have planned to build a space museum in
Carancas, Puno (795 miles southeast of Lima), the region where a meteorite
landed in September 2007.

Construction is to begin in April and $90 thousand are to be invested in the
state of the art museum that will be able to withstand Puno's extreme weather
conditions, said Hernando Núñez del Prado, director of institute affairs for the
INGEMMET.

Aside from exhibiting pieces of the chondrite, the museum will give visitors
information on aerospace science and astrophysics related to cosmic phenomenon.

Núñez del Prado explained the crater where the meteorite had landed would remain
covered by a 20x20 meter piece of canvas to keep it from being affected by the
heavy rainfall in Puno. 

He also stated a law was being proposed to protect the country from "meteorite
hunters".

Furthermore, National Geographic has announced it will present a documentary in
four languages this year on the meteorite that landed in Puno, said Rocío Gómez
Paredes, a natural resources manager fro the regional government of Puno.