Rock or spaceship? American Avery Loeb claims to have discovered objects from another planetary system

Did an American researcher, former head of the Department of Astronomy at Harvard University, discover metallic elements from a planetary system other than our own in the depths of the Pacific Ocean? Objects outside the solar system.

An asteroid fell in 2014

Avraham Loeb rocked the astrophysicist world in 2018, a year after the discovery of a celestial body called 1I/Oumuamua, which turned out to have crossed the solar system from outside here, before leaving it. Scientists have been lost in speculation regarding its nature, but the American confirmed that it could be an extraterrestrial vehicle, and its speed is estimated at about 300 thousand kilometers per hour, despite this. His colleagues, who today lean more towards the comet, did not really follow suit.

Five years later, the former Boston professor is controversially in the news again. Last June, he “combed” the ocean floor 80 kilometers from the coast of Papua New Guinea and at a depth of 1,700 meters, using a type of ski, over an area of ​​10 kilometers.² It has been identified as the celestial body named CNEOS 01-08-2014 that will complete its path in 2014. Perhaps a speedster comes from outside our planetary system, at least that’s what he thinks.

Microspheres rich in uranium, beryllium and lanthanum

From this process, Avi Loeb’s team extracted 700 small balls Barely half a millimeter in diameter, it is rich in uranium, beryllium and lanthanum. For some in proportions a thousand times higher than observed in other meteorites. “The alloys found are certainly unprecedented in our solar system,” he says without a doubt.

“This is the first time that humans have obtained material from a large body that reached Earth from outside our solar system,” confirms Abraham Loeb. “It’s historic.”

Extraterrestrial probe exploded?

The scientist proposes the hypothesis of the existence of an interstellar probe launched by an extraterrestrial civilization, which could have been damaged in the Pacific Ocean after exploding upon contact with the Earth’s atmosphere. The newspaper says: “During the next mission, we will search for larger debris. We will then be able to quickly determine whether it is a piece of rock or a technological device.” echo In an article devoted to that.

Meanwhile, the idea that this object came from interstellar space is subject to debate. The conclusions of the scientist, whose reputation and competence cannot be underestimated, are taken by his colleagues with extreme caution.