One problem, she says, is that finding trajectories of meteors in the atmosphere is very hard. “I also haven’t seen this candidate brought to any scientific conferences for discussion.” “That doesn’t seem like a situation where an appeal to authority helps in evaluating a potential candidate,” Bannister tells Inverse. The Space Force letter in and of itself is also not a big enough backup, to her, to verify the claims. Michele Bannister, a small Solar Systems object expert at the University of Canterbury, is also skeptical of the results - partly because of how little the object has been brought up to the scientific community. VICTOR HABBICK VISIONS/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/Science Photo Library/Getty Images “Note the last line which the blog ignores: Just because something is on an inbound trajectory, doesn’t mean it is interstellar,” he says.Īn illustration of ‘Oumuamua. Lintott points to a refutation of Loeb and Siraj’s claims published in a paper in Research Notes of the AAS. “If would like to make claims about discoveries he can publish a paper with the evidence like everyone else.’” Space Command would know more than, you know, any of the meteor experts who disagreed with him last time around,” Lintott tells Inverse.

“I wasn’t hugely impressed by the original arguments and I don’t understand why thinks U.S. Chris Lintott, a professor of astronomy at the University of Oxford, tells Inverse he was skeptical before and he is skeptical now. So far, many are still not ready to agree. That won’t stop Loeb from trying to get the rest of the science community to believe it. Space Command’s purview confirmed the object’s high-velocity impact, but the short duration of collected data, less than five seconds, makes it difficult to definitively determine if the object’s origin was indeed interstellar.” “This gained the interest of the scientific community as it has been posited it could have interstellar origin due to the detected event’s high velocity within the atmosphere,” the release states. Mozer confirmed that the velocity estimate reported to NASA is sufficiently accurate to indicate an interstellar trajectory.”Ī separate NASA press release dated April 7, 2022, to do with other meteor events also acknowledges the findings toward the end of the release, but NASA suggests it needs more evidence to come to a conclusion on the origins of the 2014 meteor. Space Command, reviewed analysis of additional data available to the Department of Defense related to this finding. Space Force lays out to NASA’s Zurbuchen the new interpretation of Loeb and Siraj’s discovery: “ Joel Moser, the Chief Scientist of Space Operations Command, the United States Space Force service component of U.S. In a Maletter provided to Inverse, Lieutenant General John E. In other words, the Space Force may have conceded that Loeb and Siraj’s meteor, and not ‘Oumuamua (a now infamous object spotted in 2017), is the first detected interstellar visitor to Earth. Whatever space rock they had found in the data, it wasn’t from our Solar System. Now, three years after their discovery, a letter from the United States Space Command to NASA chief scientist Thomas Zurbuchen relayed that Space Force had looked into their results: Loeb and Siraj’s measurements were seemingly correct.Ī bolide meteor of the kind Loeb and Siraj spotted in the data dating to 2014. Loeb and Siraj made their discovery while on the hunt for fast fireballs, the kind of meteor that strikes our upper atmosphere at such a velocity that they could have hurtled in from interstellar space.īut nobody else saw what they did, and their paper on the object was rejected by the Astrophysical Journal Letters. “It appeared to be a head-on collision,” Loeb tells Inverse. It was exactly what they were looking for. They saw, in short, something from outside our Solar System. At first.īut Avi Loeb, a Harvard University astrophysicist, and his student Amir Siraj saw something else in that remote bolide explosion: Five years after the meteor appeared in 2019, they looked at the data on it from NASA JPL’s Center for Near Earth Object Studies. This space rock caused a bright flash and bang captured on observatory cameras, but there are 25 million meteor entries of various sizes around Earth every day, so no one gave it a second thought.

While seemingly large, it posed no threat, mostly burning up in the atmosphere.

In 2014, a half-ton, couch-sized meteor entered the atmosphere above Papua New Guinea, brightening the night sky.

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