“Its high speed implies a possible origin from the interior of a planetary or star system in the thick disk of the Milky Way galaxy,” said student Amir Siraj and veteran astronomer Avi Loeb.
However, the peer review and publication of the paper has been delayed as the US military has clarified some of the data needed to confirm the scientists’ calculations.
It took several years for the process to bear fruit. A note from the US Space Command to the head of science for the Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) was shared via the United States Space Command (USSC) Twitter account last week after deputy commander Lieutenant General John Shaw disclosed his whereabouts at the annual Space Symposium in Colorado.
“Space Operations Command Chief Scientist Dr Joel Mozer reviewed the analysis of additional data available to the Department of Defense related to these findings. Dr Mozer confirmed the velocity estimates reported to NASA were accurate enough to show interstellar trajectories,” the note said CNetWednesday (13/4/2022).
Meteorites are thought to be relatively small and possibly the size of a microwave. This means most of it is likely to burn in the atmosphere and the remaining part falls in the Pacific Ocean. This object once looked like a fireball in the sky of Papua New Guinea.
However, Siraj is looking into the possibility of searching for what remains on the ocean floor and Loeb says it could hold evidence of life from other star systems. “The meteor is reported to have entered the solar system at a speed of 60 km/s,134,216 mph. This speed allows the object to carry evidence of life from its parent planet,” Loeb said in 2019.
Since then, Loeb has become somewhat of a controversial figure among scientific scientists, arguing that the simplest explanation for Oumuamua’s origins is that it was created by extraterrestrial intelligence.
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