A sprinkling of tiny beads recovered off the coast of Papua New Guinea might have come from a rock with a rather interesting history, having crossed light years of space from its origin around a star that's not our Sun.
in the scientific community as researchers caution against reading too deeply into the analysis.
Using an array of powerful rare-earth magnets, members of the project's search team sifted hundreds of tiny spherules 0.05 to 1.3 millimeters in diameter out of sediment 2 kilometers below the surface, around 85 kilometers north of Manus Island. Variations in isotopes of iron were found to be consistent with having undergone a traumatic entry through our atmosphere, supporting the hypothesis the spherules aren't terrestrial in origin.
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