EPISODE · Sep 22, 2022 · 42 MIN
Astrophysicists Just Discovered a Strange Interstellar Meteor Candidate With Amir Siraj
from John Michael Godier's Event Horizon · host John Michael Godier
Breaking News Avi Loeb and Amir Siraj have discovered a second interstellar meteor candidate and it is weirder than the first. In this exclusive interview with Amir Siraj, he explains how this second candidate was found and why it is so strange. A interstellar object landed on earth in 2014. The earliest confirmed interstellar object was Oumuamua. However, US Space command declassified data that shows another interstellar object landed on earth. https://avi-loeb.medium.com/discovery-of-a-second-interstellar-meteor-meter-size-interstellar-objects-are-much-tougher-than-5b280fabaa6d https://lweb.cfa.harvard.edu/~loeb/SL_IM2.pdf The 2019 Discovery of a Meteor of Interstellar Origin https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.07224 New Constraints on the Composition and Initial Speed of CNEOS 2014-01-08 https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.08482 An Interstellar Meteor Crashed to Earth. This Astronomer Wants to See If It’s Aliens. https://www.vice.com/en/article/88gpv3/an-interstellar-meteor-crashed-to-earth-this-astronomer-wants-to-see-if-its-aliens
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Breaking News Avi Loeb and Amir Siraj have discovered a second interstellar meteor candidate and it is weirder than the first. In this exclusive interview with Amir Siraj, he explains how this second candidate was found and why it is so strange. A interstellar object landed on earth in 2014. The earliest confirmed interstellar object was Oumuamua. However, US Space command declassified data that shows another interstellar object landed on earth. https://avi-loeb.medium.com/discovery-of-a-second-interstellar-meteor-meter-size-interstellar-objects-are-much-tougher-than-5b280fabaa6d https://lweb.cfa.harvard.edu/~loeb/SL_IM2.pdf The 2019 Discovery of a Meteor of Interstellar Origin https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.07224 New Constraints on the Composition and Initial Speed of CNEOS 2014-01-08 https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.08482 An Interstellar Meteor Crashed to Earth. This Astronomer Wants to See If It’s Aliens. https://www.vice.com/en/article/88gpv3/an-interstellar-meteor-crashed-to-earth-this-astronomer-wants-to-see-if-its-aliens
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