It turns out, however, that all of this research may not have been legal in the first place.Īccording to the UK outlet The Times, the government of Papua New Guinea is accusing Loeb’s team of stealing the artifacts they have collected on their mission. They form from the impact debris of the object, and usually measure only micrometers to millimeters in size. While the origin of these specific spherules is still unknown (it takes time and tests to confirm the origin of pretty much anything found at the bottom of the ocean), spherules are a good sign of a meteor. The team has also been able to find steel shards and wire made of manganese and platinum. “This composition is anomalous compared to human-made alloys, known asteroids and familiar astrophysical sources,” Loeb wrote in a Medium post. Notably, there was no nickel detected in early compositional analyses.
And most recently, they found something particularly exciting-metallic spherules.Īccording to Loeb, these particular spherules are made predominantly of iron, with trace amounts of titanium and magnesium. In order to gather as much data on the meteors as possible, the team has been scraping the sea floor where IM1 splashed down and gather whatever remnants they can find. Play icon The triangle icon that indicates to play That’s at the higher end of meteor speeds, as they typically hit Earth’s atmosphere traveling between 25,000 and 160,000 miles per hour. It and its spiritual successor Interstellar Meteor 2 (IM2), which crashed to Earth in 2017, flew in at about 110,000 miles per hour. The meteor was a bit of an anomaly, largely due to its robust nature and speed. The team-led by Avi Loeb, a controversial theoretical physicist known for his strong belief that we have been visited by intelligent extraterrestrial life and specific focus, in this context, on ‘Oumuamua-has been searching the ocean floor for remnants of Interstellar Meteor 1 (IM1), which crashed into Earth in 2014.
Researchers are scouring the deep for signs of alien life-and it might be illegal. The government of Papua New Guinea claims that the artifacts recovered by Loeb’s team are stolen, and is under pressure to abandon a new security agreement with the U.S.A team led by controversial physicist Avi Loeb is combing the ocean floor off the coast of Papua New Guinea for remnants of two meteors that they believe could actually be alien tech.Researchers are looking for evidence of extraterrestrial life deep under the sea.
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