Siraj and Loeb propose a 2014 meteor came from another star

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Portrait of astrophysicist Avi Loeb
Avi Loeb, co-author with Amir Siraj of the 2019 meteor paper Aloeb, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Harvard's Amir Siraj and Avi Loeb posted a paper arguing that a small meteor that hit the atmosphere near Papua New Guinea on January 8, 2014, recorded in U.S. government fireball data, had an orbit showing it came from outside the solar system. The claim remains debated.

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  1. FirsthandThe 2019 Discovery of a Meteor of Interstellar Origin (arXiv:1904.07224) (opens in a new tab)arXiv / 2019-04-15

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