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Manus Island, Papua New Guinea

2.08 S, 147.00 EView on OpenStreetMap

2 events here, 2023 to 2023, in date order.

  1. Media

    Avi Loeb's Pacific expedition dredges spherules near Manus Island

    Harvard's Avi Loeb led a June 2023 search off Papua New Guinea for fragments of the 2014 fireball IM1, recovering tiny metal spherules he said might be interstellar or even technological. Other scientists disputed it, attributing the material to coal ash and the seismic trace to a passing truck.

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    Loeb's team claims Pacific spherules have an extrasolar origin

    Avi Loeb and 33 co-authors posted a preprint saying some seafloor spherules from their June 2023 expedition off Manus Island had an unusual 'BeLaU' composition suggesting an extrasolar source. Other researchers argued the grains matched coal ash or ordinary sources; Loeb disputed that.