US military finally confirms a meteor hit the Earth
Colin Martin - Yesterday 10:00 AM
The object known as 'Oumuamua crashed down in Papua New Guinea, and was identified as an interstellar meteor in 2019 by Amir Siraj, who coauthored the study while a student at Harvard University.
The meteor was traveling at nearly 28 miles per second (45 kilometers per second) relative to Earth, and about 18.6 miles per second (30 kilometers per second) around the sun.
Although, Siraj said that it actually was going at a speed of about 37.3 miles per second (60 kilometers per second) relative to the sun. He was able to determine this after research showed that the meteor hit Earth from behind, or the opposite direction the planet moves.
"Its 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," Siraj wrote in the paper.
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