'Alien meteorite' from another solar system did strike Earth in 2014, scientists confirm

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alien meteorite' in 2014 as it travelled from another solar system, US Space Command and Harvard scientists have confirmed.It was originally believed our planet was first hit by an extrasolar space rock in 2017 - however, the latest data of the 2014 rock that have been plucked from the Pacific ocean has pushed that date back by three years.

Scientists believe that the rock, which exploded into a fireball on landing could suggest that these types of rocks are common visitors to our Solar system.On April 6, Space Command issued a memo confirming the work of Harvard astronomers Amir Siraj and Abraham Loeb, noting that the velocity and trajectory of the meteor suggested that the rock had travelled to Earth from another star system.

Drs Siraj and Loeb wrote a paper in 2019 making the case for an extrasolar origin and posted it to the scientific preprint server ArXiv but they were never to be able to have it published in a peer-reviewed as it used data from the US Department of Defense, Vice reports.But following the discovery of Oumuamua, a large, elongated asteroid that was determined to be of interstellar origin, the experts began checking historical data from NASA’s Center for Near Earth Object Studies (CNEOS) for evidence of small meteors that could also have come from outside the Solar System.

Among the recordings, they found a fireball detected near Papua New Guinea on January 8, 2014 which was travelling unusually fast to be an object from nearby space.