Red rain in Kerala
The Kerala Red Rain was a rain event in Kerala , India during which red rain fell. The phenomenon occurred several times between July 25th and September 23rd, 2001. Official investigations assume a shower of blood , caused by a species of algae of the family Trentepohliaceae . Researchers such as B. Chandra Wickramasinghe , Milton Wainwright and physicist Godfrey Louis keep an astronomical event possible in which an extraterrestrial object, like a meteor in the atmosphere broke while extraterrestrial material brought .
Similar rain events from 2012 are known from Sri Lanka .
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ Colored rain from meteorite dust? orf.at
- ↑ red rain of Kerala daviddarling.info
- ↑ Colored Rain-A Report of the Phenomenon ( Memento of June 13, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) geocities.com, pdf, accessed on February 23, 2015
- ^ The Extraordinary Tale of Red Rain, Comets and Extraterrestrials technologyreview.com
- ^ Nalin C. Wickramasinghe: The search for our cosmic ancestry. World Scientific, New Jersey 2015, ISBN 978-981-4616-96-6 , The Mystery of the Red Rain. Pp. 159-169.
- ↑ 'Colored rain': AEA to conduct experiments dailynews.lk
- ↑ Red rain, fireballs and meteorites in Sri Lanka buckingham.ac.uk, accessed February 20, 2015.