Commissar SFLUFAN Posted April 12, 2022 Share Posted April 12, 2022 Secret Government Info Confirms First Known Interstellar Object on Earth, Scientists Say WWW.VICE.COM A small meteor that hit Earth in 2014 was from another star system, and may have left interstellar debris on the seafloor. Quote An object from another star system crashed into Earth in 2014, the United States Space Command (USSC) confirmed in a newly-released memo. The meteor ignited in a fireball in the skies near Papua New Guinea, the memo states, and scientists believe it possibly sprinkled interstellar debris into the South Pacific Ocean. The confirmation backs up the breakthrough discovery of the first interstellar meteor—and, retroactively, the first known interstellar object of any kind to reach our solar system—which was initially flagged by a pair of Harvard University researchers in a study posted on the preprint server arXiv in 2019. Amir Siraj, a student pursuing astrophysics at Harvard who led the research, said the study has been awaiting peer review and publication for years, but has been hamstrung by the odd circumstances that arose from the sheer novelty of the find and roadblocks put up by the involvement of information classified by the U.S. government. The discovery of the meteor, which measured just a few feet wide, follows recent detections of two other interstellar objects in our solar system, known as ‘Oumuamua and Comet Borisov, that were much larger and did not come into close contact with Earth. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marioandsonic Posted April 12, 2022 Share Posted April 12, 2022 Shame it wasn't big enough. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mclumber1 Posted April 12, 2022 Share Posted April 12, 2022 1 minute ago, marioandsonic said: Shame it wasn't big enough. Don't worry. It's growing. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bacon Posted April 12, 2022 Share Posted April 12, 2022 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skillzdadirecta Posted April 12, 2022 Share Posted April 12, 2022 Just now, mclumber1 said: Don't worry. It's growing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zaku3 Posted April 12, 2022 Share Posted April 12, 2022 Suffer not the alien to live. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr.Vic20 Posted April 12, 2022 Share Posted April 12, 2022 Keep it to yourself universe, we don't need your carbon emissions too! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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