An Interstellar Meteor Struck the Earth in 2014, and now Scientists Want to Search for it at the Bottom of the Ocean - by ScottyJ_PhD
The US Space Command confirmed that CNEOS 2014-01-08 followed an interstellar trajectory in April 2022.
While the official scientific classification of CNEOS 2014-01-08 seems doomed to remain in limbo for the time being, the statement by the US Space Force was enough to convince Siraj and Loeb of its interstellar origin, and they have now moved on to proposing possible ways to find the object and study it up close.
Much of the meteorite would have burned up during its descent into Earth’s atmosphere, likely leaving only fragments behind, scattered across the ocean floor. However, not all hope is lost, as the tracking data from the satellite, combined with wind and ocean current data, can provide a reasonable search area of just 10km by 10km.
Even if it is just a rock – which is by far the most likely explanation – it’ll tell us a lot about the composition of rocky matter beyond our own solar system, and that itself would be a valuable bit of new data.
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