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By Melissa Maykin and Kyle Evans

Harvard University team heading to PNG in quest to find interstellar rock unlike anything scientists have seen before

Harvard physicist Avi Loeb is leading the expedition to Papua New Guinea. (Supplied: Avi Loeb)

A team of Harvard University scientists is planning an expedition to Papua New Guinea to investigate the origin and make-up of a rare interstellar meteor, fragments of which are believed to have crashed into waters near Manus Island. 

In 2014, US ballistic missile systems identified an object that had collided with Earth's atmosphere and it was added to a NASA "meteor catalogue" of 272 objects.

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