Harvard scientist claims to have identified the first extrasolar materials on Earth, of unknown origin
Harvard physicist Avi Loeb claims that hundreds of tiny fragments found on the bottom of the Pacific Ocean come from outside our solar system, making them the first truly "Alien" objects found on Earth.
Professor Avi Loeb, a Harvard physicist and alien hunter, said initial analyzes of the metal fragments his team recovered from the Pacific Ocean in June suggest they came from interstellar space, the DailyMail reported.
The remains came from a meteor-like object that crashed off the coast of Papua New Guinea in 2014, which Professor Loeb doesn't rule out could be fragments of an alien craft.
During the expedition the team found about 700 tiny metal spheres and the 57 analyzed contain compositions that do not correspond to any natural or man-made alloy.
The findings do not yet say whether the spheres are of man-made or natural origin – which Professor Loeb says is the next question his research aims to answer.
"This is a historic discovery because it represents the first time humans have their hands on the materials of a large object that has come to Earth from outside the solar system," Professor Loeb said on Tuesday.
The remains come from a metre-sized object that crashed off the coast of Papua, New Guinea in 2014, which Professor Loeb claims was alien craft.
During the two-week trip to the Pacific, the Galileo team scanned the seabed for signs of IM1 debris, pulling a deep-sea magnetic sled along the fireball's last known trajectory.
Analysis of the composition of the spherules was performed by Stein Jacobsen and his team in the Cosmochemistry laboratory at Harvard University. Professor Stein is a world-renowned chemist, certainly not known for having imaginative ideas.
Professor Loeb told DailyMail.com: 'I was thrilled when Stein Jacobsen told me about it based on the results in his lab.'
"For now, we wanted to test whether the materials are from outside the solar system," he said.
“The success of the expedition illustrates the importance of taking risks in science despite all odds as an opportunity to discover new knowledge.”
Loeb and his team have released their study of the findings, which has yet to be peer-reviewed.
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