Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb announced that he and his colleagues at the Galileo Project have completed an analysis of dozens of small “balls” from IM1, a meteorite that crashed into the Pacific Ocean in 2014.
Their conclusion is that at least some of these fragments are not from our home star system.
Five tiny balls according to Loeb’s article “formed as molten droplets from the surface of IM1 as it was exposed to the immense heat from the fireball generated by its friction with the air.”
What’s more, the five pieces in question have a “composition pattern of elements from outside the Solar System” that has “never been seen before.” However, it should be noted that these findings have not yet been confirmed by other independent experts.
Likewise, there is no word yet on whether the balls also show signs of extraterrestrial design. Loeb has been longing for something like this for a long time.
“The fundamental question is, can any interstellar meteor indicate a composition that is clearly artificial in origin?” he stated earlier this year. “Even better, maybe some of the technology components would survive the impact. My dream is to push some buttons on a functional device that was made outside of Earth.”
2023-08-30 17:46:14
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