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Brett Tingley

Interstellar meteor fragments found? Harvard astronomer's claim sparks debate, criticism

a finger pointing to a small metal ball on a screen

Avi Loeb is back.

The former chair of the Harvard Astronomy Department recently returned from an expedition to the Pacific Ocean near Papua New Guinea that dragged a magnetic sled across the seafloor in an attempt to find fragments of what Loeb claims is the first-known interstellar meteor, what he refers to as "IM1." 

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