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Readers may already be familiar with Harvard Physicist Avi Loeb. A few years ago, astronomers detected an object hurtling through the solar system which was dubbed Oumuamua. It was unusual because they determined that it had originated from outside our solar system, the first such confirmed interstellar traveler we’d seen. Dr. Loeb caused some waves in the scientific community when he said that his observations of Oumuamua suggested that it might not be a space rock, but instead, possibly a technological object of some kind, potentially from outside our solar system. We’ll never know for sure since it continued on and headed back out into deep space.
That gave Loeb an idea. He went back with some of his graduate students and began scanning all of NASA’s data regarding meteors that fall into the Earth’s atmosphere. After a long search, he found one with a speed and apparent composition that also appeared to have been interstellar in origin. He named it IM1 (Interstellar Metor 1). Even more fascinating, the NASA data was precise enough to determine that the object probably wasn’t your usual meteorite and was likely composed of something much denser and harder, potentially suggesting something technological. He was also able to plot right where it came down, just off the coast of Australia.
This month, his ship arrived at the site and began searching for debris by dragging large magnetic sleds across the sea bed. (It’s rather shallow there.) Well, yesterday they found… something. It’s still too soon to say for sure, but it doesn’t look or act like a space rock.
"...the expedition research team recovered shards of corroded iron. At first, we thought it may be common industrial iron associated with human-made ocean trash. But when Ryan Weed ran the sample of shards through the X-ray Fluorescence (XRF) analyzer, the most likely alloy it flagged is X5 steel with titanium, which is also known as shock-resisting steel."
Dr. Loeb wanted to be very clear that more testing is required. He describes the material as resembling what he calls “shock-resisting steel.” They are testing the material...
https://hotair.com/jazz-shaw/2023/0...-the-remains-of-an-interstellar-craft-n559344
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That gave Loeb an idea. He went back with some of his graduate students and began scanning all of NASA’s data regarding meteors that fall into the Earth’s atmosphere. After a long search, he found one with a speed and apparent composition that also appeared to have been interstellar in origin. He named it IM1 (Interstellar Metor 1). Even more fascinating, the NASA data was precise enough to determine that the object probably wasn’t your usual meteorite and was likely composed of something much denser and harder, potentially suggesting something technological. He was also able to plot right where it came down, just off the coast of Australia.
This month, his ship arrived at the site and began searching for debris by dragging large magnetic sleds across the sea bed. (It’s rather shallow there.) Well, yesterday they found… something. It’s still too soon to say for sure, but it doesn’t look or act like a space rock.
"...the expedition research team recovered shards of corroded iron. At first, we thought it may be common industrial iron associated with human-made ocean trash. But when Ryan Weed ran the sample of shards through the X-ray Fluorescence (XRF) analyzer, the most likely alloy it flagged is X5 steel with titanium, which is also known as shock-resisting steel."
Dr. Loeb wanted to be very clear that more testing is required. He describes the material as resembling what he calls “shock-resisting steel.” They are testing the material...
https://hotair.com/jazz-shaw/2023/0...-the-remains-of-an-interstellar-craft-n559344
maximus otter