Last time April 1st A celestial body appeared near the earth. According to a recent note from the United States Space Command (USSC), the fast-moving object from another galaxy was the fireball that burned in the sky over Papua New Guinea in 2014. Live Science He noticed.
6 / “I was happy to sign a memo @ussfspocThe chief scientist of Dr. Moser, a confirmation that helped a broad astronomical community to confirm that a previously discovered interstellar object was in fact an interstellar object. pic.twitter.com/PGlIOnCSrW
– US space command (@US_SpaceCom) April 7, 2022
The meteorite, which is just 0.45 meters in diameter, entered the Earth’s atmosphere on January 8, 2014, after traveling through space at a speed of more than 210,000 kilometers per hour – much faster than the average speed of meteorites orbiting the Solar System. Preprint database on Object 2019 Research.
According to the 2019 study above, the speed and orbit of a small meteorite is about 100 percent clear that this object is far beyond our solar system – perhaps “from the depths of a planetary system or from a star in the Milky Way’s thick disk”.
Despite the likely correct result, the team’s study was never published in a scientific journal because some data needed to verify their calculations were secretly classified by the U.S. government. Wise.
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