Astrophysicist Avi Loeb and his team claim to be the first to have found fragments from an interstellar meteor, but other scientists are extremely sceptical
A microscopic image of a metal sphere that is argued to have come from an interstellar objectTiny metal spheres found on the sea floor may have come from an interstellar meteor. The team of researchers that recovered the spherules say that their compositions don’t match anything ever seen before on Earth – but it’s a controversial claim.
generates as it passes through Earth’s atmosphere. The compositions aren’t consistent with origins on Earth, the moon or Mars,“Usually when you have spherules that originated from meteors in the solar system, their abundances deviate by at most an order of magnitude” he says. These deviate by up to a factor of 1000. “If you combine everything that we know… I’m pretty confident that these came from an interstellar object.
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