A meteor that splashed into the South Pacific in 2014 was recently confirmed to have origins outside our Solar System.
Before USSC confirmed this meteor was a distant stranger, all previous rocky bodies that fell to Earth were thought to have originated in our own Solar System. Many of themcome from a colony of millions of other rocks in the Asteroid Belt between Mars and Jupiter, some 111.5 million miles from Earth.
Two Harvard University researchers were the first to study the 2014 meteor’s distant origin, posting their research on theback in 2019 . The meteor’s unusually high speed “implies a possible origin from the deep interior of a planetary system or a star in the thick disk of the Milky Way galaxy,” the researchers state in the study, which will be resubmitted for publication in a peer-reviewed journal in light of the recent confirmation.
Siraj and his Harvard colleague Avi Loeb, who leads the Galileo Project, originally submitted the discovery to
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