Harvard student Amir Siraj ’22 and Professor Avi Loeb have found the earliest known meteor from another solar system to hit Earth, with the results confirmed by U.S. Space Force.
n early 2014, a dishwasher-size meteor dashed over the shores of Papua New Guinea before sunrise as it burned up in the fiery friction of Earth's atmosphere. But two Harvard researchers argued that this wasn't just any space rock: It originated from another star system, they said, making it the first observed meteor of interstellar origin.
The meteor debris can be scooped up with a magnet, physicist Avi Loeb suggested, potentially yielding “sizeable chunks of interstellar matter” and allowing. 25.04.2022, Sputnik International
Object from interstellar space hit Earth via another star system , claims US Space Command s memo - Scientists also claim that the object was just a few feet across the Earth but was big enough to leave debris into the ocean.