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    Mystery illness strikes after meteorite lands

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    Hundreds of people in South America are feeling ill after a close encounter with what's thought to be a meteorite that's fallen to Earth from space.

    The mystery object left a massive 39m-wide crater when it crashed into the ground in a remote part of Peru.

    About 600 people who've visited the site say they've had headaches and felt sick after breathing in smelly gasses.

    A group of scientists is collecting samples from the crash site to find out if the object really was a meteorite.

    It's thought the object gave off the smelly gases as it hit the ground, which is something that most meteorites do.

    But it's not just people who aren't feeling well after breathing in the gases. A bull has died and some other animals are also sick.

    Experts say they want people to stop visiting the site until they've got rid of all the gases.

    From Newsround

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