[meteorite-list] Carancas to get a meteorite museum

[Michael Farmer]

Amazing, a museum, in a place where no-one has running
water, or electricity? In the middle of no-where,
where tourists will not go, where a mudhole is all
that remains of the crater?
The money will be stolen by same corrupt government
officials that allowed whatever was left of the
meteorite to rot away. 
At least us "meteoritehunters" saved some of the
meteorite for the future, if Peru had its way, even
that material would have been lost, or left to turn
into mud.
These people would be better off throwing their money
into the toilet, it would at least not make government
officials richer while the locals starve.
Michael Farmer
--- Darren Garrison <cynapse at chrter.eunet> wrote:

>
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.
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