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Spherules Thought to Be From 2014 Meteorite Impact Could Be 790,000 Years Older

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Avi Loeb and his team found iron-rich spheres on the seafloor near Papua New Guinea. They found the isotope distribution was so unusual they must have an interstellar origin. The region in which they were found is part of what is known as the Australasian tektite strewn field.

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Spherules Thought to Be From 2014 Meteorite Impact Could Be 790,000 Years Older

Our Solar System does not exist in isolation.

2 months ago·Australia

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A 790,000 Year-Old Asteroid Impact Could Explain Seafloor Spherules

Our solar system does not exist in isolation. It formed within a stellar nursery along with hundreds of sibling stars, and even today has the occasional interaction with interstellar objects such as Oumuamua and Borisov. So it’s reasonable to presume that some interstellar material has reached Earth. Recently Avi Loeb and his team earned quite a bit of attention with a study arguing that it had found some of this interstellar stuff on the ocean …

2 months ago·United States

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