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Africa-Press – Mauritius. <\/strong><\/span>As the materials are heavily enriched in the metals beryllium (Be), lanthanum (La), and uranium (U), it serves as a big clue that they are not made up of the same content one would find in our own solar system.<\/p>\n

Fragments found on the ocean floor off the coast of Papua New Guinea and recovered in June are believed to have initially emerged from beyond our solar system, a new yet-to-be peer-reviewed study recently detailed.<\/p>\n

According to Harvard University astronomer Avi Loeb, who founded the Galileo Project in 2021, the fragments come from a meteor traced by US government satellites before it fell to the Pacific in 2014. The meteor, classified as IM1, initially attracted attention because of its strange velocity.<\/p>\n

Loeb and his team analyzed what were essentially grains of sand, with some measuring 0.05 to 1.3 millimeters in diameter. They studied at least 57 of these tiny bead-like particles using rare-earth magnets. The researchers subsequently determined the particles had variations in isotopes of iron consistent with the meteorite\u2019s damaging travels through Earth\u2019s atmosphere.<\/p>\n

The group then found that the particles were rich in the metals beryllium (Be), lanthanum (La), and uranium (U). This particular ratio of metals is incredibly rare, the study says, which suggests it comes from a location far beyond Earth\u2019s solar system.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a historic discovery because it represents the first time that scientists analyze materials from a large object that arrived to Earth from outside the solar system,\u201d Loeb wrote in his report.<\/p>\n

However, the study has been met with its fair share of criticism from fellow researchers in the field. Loeb, who is considered a controversial figure, does not shy away from the topic of extraterrestrials; in fact, he inflames the curiosity surrounding that debate. In 2018, he published a paper claiming Earth was visited by extraterrestrials in 2017 after the emergence of a mysterious interstellar object named \u2018Oumuamua.<\/p>\n

Critics of Loeb have said he is submitting to sensationalism, rather than actual science.<\/p>\n

Despite being hopeful that someday there will be evidence of aliens, Dr. Matthew Genge, from the Imperial College London, is skeptical about the discovery.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe seafloor is littered with spherules, some natural and some artificial, from satellite debris, rocket exhaust, windblown material from industry, or even nuclear tests. You can find all sorts of odd particles in the deep,\u201d he told an online news outlet.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are tens of thousands of different alloys and I\u2019d suspect they haven\u2019t compared them all, particularly when some, for example in military hardware, are classified,\u201d he added. \u201cFurthermore, these are spherules, thus formed by melting and mixing of materials, making new, odd compositions.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople are sick of hearing about Avi Loeb\u2019s wild claims,\u201d added Steve Desch, an astrophysicist at Arizona State University, told a New York journal in July after Loeb first detailed his findings. \u201cIt\u2019s polluting good science \u2014 conflating the good science we do with this ridiculous sensationalism and sucking all the oxygen out of the room.\u201d<\/p>\n

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