Undeterred by naysayers or controversy, Prof. Avi Loeb stuck to his guns about a rare 2014 space rock and his findings have finally been vindicated by the US government
Scientists have launched an undersea expedition to trace and collect the pieces of the first known interstellar object that hit Earth in 2014, reports Science Alert. The said object had crashed into the ocean just off the coast of Papua New Guinea.
Examples of Interstellar objects are asteroids, comets, or rogue planets that are not gravitationally bound to a star.
A meteorite believed to have come from beyond the solar system crashed into the ocean in 2014 off the coast of Papua New Guinea. Scientists have now launched an expedition to the depths of the ocean to search for the space rock.