Study argues Loeb's Pacific spherules match coal ash
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University of Chicago physicist Patricio Gallardo argued in Research Notes of the AAS that the element pattern in Avi Loeb's Pacific spherules matches industrial coal ash, disfavoring a meteoritic or interstellar origin. Loeb disputed the comparison.
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- FirsthandAnthropogenic Coal Ash as a Contaminant in a Micro-meteoritic Underwater Search (P. A. Gallardo) (opens in a new tab)
- Press'Alien' spherules dredged from the Pacific are probably just industrial pollution, new studies suggest (opens in a new tab)
- OtherCritique of arXiv submission 2308.15623 (Loeb et al. spherules) (opens in a new tab)
How the story came out
This reports on Loeb's team claims Pacific spherules have an extrasolar origin (29 Aug 2023).