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Considered the longest-serving chairman of the astronomy department of Harvard until he was hired by a science and technology advisory committee at the White House, Avi Loeb is an astrophysics professor who has an idea that can be considered at least curious. He wants to retrieve fragments of a meteor that he believes has alien technology due to resistance to coming into with Earth's atmosphere. 47291a

Avi still has no proof that the celestial body is of interstellar origin, but that must be proved when (and if) it finds its fragments in the Pacific Ocean. Understand the story now.

The idea of ​​Avi Loeb 3k5e1f

the teacher of Harvard ed his students to find out if a meteor that had entered the Earth's atmosphere stood out among those arriving on our planet.

Amir Siraj, one of his students, noticed that a celestial body that fell into the Pacific Ocean in 2014 stood out due to the burning and especially the speed that entered the Earth's atmosphere. The event raised curiosity about its material, which could withstand high temperatures and is much stronger than the iron we know.

I found the catalog the government compiled of meteorites detected by government (US) missile warning system sensors. I asked my student to check if one of the meteors could have reached Earth from outside the solar system. This one in particular had a differential in of its composition. It also had a speed from outside the solar system. It moved at least twice as fast as stars move around and near the Sun.

Avi Loeb, a professor at Harvard.

Three years after the first information about the fall, a letter from the US Space Command at the Department of Defense confirmed that the celestial body came from outside the solar system. Loeb so he began to speculate that we were dealing with possible alien technology that was both stronger and lighter.

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Although the professor believes in the great potential of the celestial body, he also knows that he is suffering a lot of criticism. Nonetheless, Avi he just wants to prove himself right and give concrete information about a type of material never before seen by mankind.

It's not a philosophical question if we live in an environment where objects are flawed. Around that are extraterrestrial technologies. We just need to use our telescopes and find out. 

Avi Loeb, a professor at Harvard.

O largest study on the celestial body was published in 2019 and still awaiting a review, but the two are focused that everything that is documented can be proven with practical tests.

Upon realizing that we found an object of technological origin produced elsewhere, I would not seek approval from anyone else. I don't need likes on Twitter. I just want to know what it is.

Avi Loeb, a professor at Harvard.

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The real shard scavenger hunt is expected to cost over a million dollars and the professor, alongside his students, hopes to start this soon. So far, he has raised $500 through private institutions and hopes to have the rest of the money in the coming months.

Once everything is ready, an expedition on the coast of Papua New Guinea will be held, as it is in this region that data on the meteor fall is available. He hopes to find small fragments that are coin-sized, but he is confident his studies will yield results.

We are planning to board a ship, build a probe, and attach a magnet to it. An excavation will be made at the bottom of the ocean and the work is like mowing the region's grass. After collecting all possible fragments in a region of ten kilometers, we will brush them and study the composition in the laboratory.

Avi Loeb, a professor at Harvard.

It is not yet known how the material could be used by humanity, but this would give a possible estimate of what we can expect in relation to space exploration. Do you believe that the meteor that fell to Earth in 2014 has alien technology? tell us Comment!

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