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U.S. Space Command backs interstellar reading of a 2014 meteor

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Map of the CNEOS 2014-01-08 meteor location off Papua New Guinea
Location of the 2014 meteor CNEOS 2014-01-08, which Space Command data supported as interstellar Abraham Loeb and Frank H. Laukien (Galileo Project), CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

U.S. Space Command officials confirmed the velocity data for a January 2014 fireball off Papua New Guinea that Harvard researchers had argued came from outside the solar system. NASA noted the short data record makes the interstellar origin hard to confirm.

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  1. OfficialU.S. Space Force Releases Decades of Bolide Data to NASA for Planetary Defense StudiesNASA / 2022-04-07
  2. FirsthandSpy Satellites Confirmed Our Discovery of the First Meteor from beyond the Solar SystemScientific American / 2022-04-12

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