Seeking the Second Interstellar Meteor

<p>While working on the first interstellar meteor IM1 detected by US Government satellites, I received generous support from the Office of Science and Technology Policy at the White House which reached out to the US Space Command, leading to an official&nbsp;<a href="https://lweb.cfa.harvard.edu/~loeb/DoD.pdf" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">confirmation letter</a>&nbsp;on the interstellar origin and fireball&nbsp;<a href="https://lweb.cfa.harvard.edu/~loeb/lightcurve.pdf" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">light curve</a>&nbsp;of IM1. This allowed my research team within the&nbsp;<a href="https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/galileo/home" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Galileo Project</a>&nbsp;to proceed with a related expedition to the Pacific Ocean in search for the materials left over from IM1&rsquo;s fireball.</p> <p>The official letter and data from the Department of Defense allowed us to receive funding and visit IM1&rsquo;s site, where we recovered spherules of potentially extrasolar composition. Our findings were recently published in two research notes and summarized in an&nbsp;<a href="https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/2401/2401.09882.pdf" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">extensive paper</a>.</p> <p><a href="https://avi-loeb.medium.com/seeking-the-second-interstellar-meteor-4b6ef6528b4c"><strong>Click Here</strong></a></p>