INTERSTELLAR METEOR [FT425:6]
Last year, Harvard Astronomer Avi Loeb led a controversial expedition to the waters off Papua New Guinea in search of what he believes to be a meteorite from outside the Solar System that could be the remains of technology from an alien civilisation. Even if it was not alien tech, it would still have been only the third interstellar visitor to the Solar System ever detected, and the only one to actually hit Earth, so was still worth investigating.
Loeb used a recording from a seismometer on Manus Island in Papua New Guinea to conclude that the meteor hit the Earth with a speed consistent with an interstellar object, and to deduce the location in the nearby ocean where its remains might be found. His team then collected debris from the seabed (without the permission of the Papua government) which led Loeb to
