Harvard professor’s search for remains of interstellar object that crashed into ocean concludes

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Harvard professor’s search for remains of interstellar object that crashed into ocean concludes — here’s what was found

By Alex Oliveira
June 27, 2023

A Harvard University physics professor just concluded a two-week project dredging the depths of the Pacific Ocean in search of the remains of the first confirmed interstellar object to fall to Earth — an object he hypothesized could be a form of extraterrestrial technology.

Professor Avi Loeb — famous for his 2017 stance that the bizarre interstellar object ʻOumuamua could be an extraterrestrial object passing Earth — announced that his research team wrapped up their $1.5 million expedition, and that they’d collected 35 milligrams of promising material.

Those findings consisted of 50 spherules — small spheres of material mere millimeters in diameter that are characteristically shed from meteorites as they enter and burn up in Earth’s atmosphere.

The team collected the spherules by dragging a large magnetic sled across the ocean floor off the coast of Papa New Guinea.

“As molten droplets from a fireball, they carry information about the elemental and isotopic composition of the first recognized interstellar meteor,” Loeb wrote on Tuesday in his ongoing Medium blog about the project.

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Source:  https://nypost.com/2023/06/27/harvard-professor-avi-loebs-search-for-remains-of-interstellar-object-that-crashed-into-ocean-concludes-heres-what-was-found/