While a young space scientist named Amir Siraj was an undergraduate student at Harvard University, the US Space Force also confirmed the “interstellar meteor” for the meteor that fell on Papua New Guinea on January 8, 2014.
VERIFYED BY THE LETTER THEY SENT
Siraj, who spent years trying to get their findings published, and his Harvard professor, physics professor Abraham Loeb, recently received a letter from General John Shaw, Deputy Commander of the US Space Forces.
In the letter that Siraj shared with CNN television, it was pointed out that the US Space Forces Command’s investigations also confirmed that this meteorite is an interstellar meteor.
The following statements were included in the letter:
“Dr. Joel Mozer, Chief Scientist of the Space Operations Command, a component of the U.S. Space Force, reviewed the analysis of additional data submitted to the Department of Defense regarding this finding. Dr. Mozer said that the velocity estimate reported to NASA was adequate to indicate the orbit of an interstellar object. true.”
FIRST DISCOVERED IN 2017
This meteor thus became the first interstellar object to hit the earth.
Siraj made his first discovery of this meteorite in 2017 at Harvard University while researching the “Oumuamua” meteorite, the first known interstellar meteor in the solar system, with Loeb.
As part of his work, Siraj decided to peruse NASA’s Near-Earth Object Research (YDNA) database to find other interstellar objects, and within days had discovered what he believed to be an interstellar meteor.
Calculating the speed of the meteor by indexing it to the sun, Siraj determined that its orbit extends from the outside to the solar system, unlike the closed orbit of other meteorites around the sun.
However, since NASA’s database did not contain information about how accurate the data was, the two scientists could not publish their findings about this meteorite, which is described as “CNEOS-2014-01-08”. (AA)