  Assuming that cosmic rays entering the Earth's atmosphere contain a small
admixture of nuggets of strange quark matter in form of strangelets one can
explain a number of apparently "strange" effects observed in different cosmic
rays experiments. We shall demonstrate here that the mass spectrum of such
strangelets filles the "nuclear desert" gap existing between the heaviest
elements observed in Universe and the next "nuclear-like objects" represented
by neutron and strange stars.
