Physicist maintains interstellar meteorite, possibly “alien” material found on seafloor

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Physicist maintains interstellar meteorite, possibly “alien” material found on seafloor

Harvard University physicist Avi Loeb has responded to those who have cast doubt over his claim that metallic spherules retrieved from the seafloor near Papua New Guinea are from a meteorite of interstellar origin. Location of meteor CNEOS 2014-01-08. Credit: Abraham (Avi) Loeb and Frank H. Laukien / Galileo Project via Wikimedia Commons. Loeb has even claimed that the fragments’ unusual chemical makeup could be evidence of an alien civilisation…