If you are interested to the immensity of the universe and the various objects that can be found there, this news now made official by the Pentagon may well arouse your interest. We invite you to discover in more detail the very first interstellar visitor who landed on our beautiful planet Earth.
A visitor as we see … never
United States Space Command (USSC) recently confirmed a 2014 study by a team of astronomers, noting that government sensors have indeed detected on Earth a meteor originating outside our solar system. This rock is only the third interstellar object ever detected in our solar system, and the very first to enter our atmosphere.
Once scientists have published their research on this meteoric discovery, they may be able to tell us more about its content. This ball of fire, which passed through our atmosphere above Papua New Guinea in 2014, was therefore no ordinary space pebble: it was in fact an interstellar meteor, the first ever known to come from outside our system and arrive on Earth. The rock finally broke during his descentlikely scattering interstellar debris in the South Pacific Ocean.
A proven distant origin
Confirmation of its distant origins only came recently, when the USSC posted a memo on April 6, 2022, confirming that the meteor was indeed an interstellar object. This is currently a unique case of its kind since many of the meteors that reach us actually come from a colony of millions of other rocks located in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. , about 111.5 million kilometers from Earth.
Two researchers from Harvard University were the first to investigate the distant origin of the 2014 meteor, posting their research on arXiv’s server as early as 2019 (but this data was not peer-reviewed at the time). The unusually high speed of the meteor (we are talking here about 210,000 kilometers per hour) implies a possible origin from the deep interior of a planetary system, or from a star in the thick disc of the Milky Way.
One of the researchers who worked to publicize this discovery, Amir Siraj, now wants to find the remains of this meteor that have been scattered at the bottom of the ocean. It may be of an impossible thing given the decay rate of the object and the tiny pieces that probably resulted from the impact. Amir Siraj thus declares on behalf of Popular Mechanics:
We are currently studying the possibility of embarking on an oceanic expedition to recover the first interstellar meteorite. If found, in-depth analyzes will be carried out on the sample to understand its origin and the information it carries about its parent system.
We hope that this project will be accepted in the future, in order to have new data on the very first interstellar visitor who landed on Earth’s soil, with the hope of discovering hitherto unknown materials (or, on the contrary, materials of which we already know everything). And if it’s UFOs that interest you, you can always find our previous article on declassification by the Pentagon of 3 videos of alleged UFOs in American skies.
