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Blood-red rain fell on India for two months and some physicists blamed a comet

Ellsworth Toohey
Jun 25, 2026
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From July to September 2001, heavy downpours of red-colored rain fell across the southern Indian state of Kerala, staining clothes pink. Yellow, green, and black rain also appeared. Each milliliter of rain water contained about 9 million red particles. Scientists estimated that 50,000 kilograms of them fell in total.

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