{"id":2017635,"date":"2023-08-31T01:18:01","date_gmt":"2023-08-31T05:18:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/historic-discovery-harvard-physicist-says-fragments-found-in-pacific-may-be-from-outside-earths-solar-system\/"},"modified":"2023-08-31T01:21:46","modified_gmt":"2023-08-31T05:21:46","slug":"historic-discovery-harvard-physicist-says-fragments-found-in-pacific-may-be-from-outside-earths-solar-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/historic-discovery-harvard-physicist-says-fragments-found-in-pacific-may-be-from-outside-earths-solar-system\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Groundbreaking Find&#8217;: Harvard Scientist Suggests Pacific Fragments Could Originate Beyond Our Solar System"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhistoric-discovery-harvard-physicist-says-fragments-found-in-pacific-may-be-from-outside-earths-solar-system%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2017635&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>A\u2062 Historic Discovery: Harvard Professor\u2063 Finds Remnants of Interstellar Object<\/h2>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nfl-coach-comes-out-as-gay-a-first-in-major-us-pro-sports\/\" title=\"NFL coach publicly reveals he is gay, a historic first in major American pro sports.\">groundbreaking revelation<\/a>, a Harvard physicist\u200b professor has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/diet-coke-is-not-liberal-or-conservative-so-please-stop\/\" title=\"Diet Coke Is Not Liberal Or Conservative, So Please Stop\">presented evidence suggesting<\/a> that remnants \u2064of a meteor-like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sen-jon-tester-on-probe-into-potential-object-detected-over-montana-may-still-be-something-out-there\/\" title=\"Sen. Jon Tester On Probe Into Potential Object Detected Over Montana: \u2018May Still Be Something Out There\u2019\">object found<\/a> on Earth \u2064could have originated \u2063from outside our solar system.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Professor Avi Loeb and \u2063his team of researchers embarked on an expedition to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/historic-discovery-harvard-physicist-says-fragments-found-in-pacific-may-be-from-outside-earths-solar-system\/\" title=\"'Groundbreaking Find': Harvard Scientist Suggests Pacific Fragments Could Originate Beyond Our Solar System\">retrieve approximately 700 \u2062tiny metallic spheres<\/a> from an impact zone near Manus Island, Papua New Guinea. Astonishingly, composition analysis conducted \u200bby Stein Jacobsen and his team at Harvard University revealed that 57 of these \u200bspheres contain compositions that defy\u200c explanation by man-made or natural alloys.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThis is a historic\u200d discovery\u200c because it\u200b represents the \u200cfirst time that \u2062humans have laid\u2063 hands on materials from a large object that arrived\u2063 on\u2063 Earth from outside the solar system,\u201d exclaimed Loeb\u2064 during a recent announcement.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Loeb expressed his\u2064 excitement upon receiving the results\u200b from\u200c Jacobsen&#8217;s laboratory, stating, \u201cStein is a highly \u200drespected\u200d geochemist known \u200dfor his impartiality and professionalism. He expected to find familiar \u2063spherules with compositions typical \u2064of our solar system, but the data\u200c revealed something entirely \u2063new, never before reported in\u200d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/doctor-who-declared-george-floyd-dead-talks-excited-delirium-drug-use-during-derek-chauvin-trial\/\" title=\"Doctor Who Declared George Floyd Dead Talks \u2018Excited Delirium,\u2019 Drug Use During Derek Chauvin Trial\">scientific literature<\/a>. This discovery underscores the importance of evidence-based scientific exploration.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cFor now, our primary objective was to determine whether these materials originated from outside our solar system,\u201d Loeb continued. \u201cThe success of this expedition demonstrates the value of taking scientific risks, even against all odds, as it presents an\u2063 opportunity to uncover new knowledge.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">According to Loeb&#8217;s non-peer reviewed <a href=\"https:\/\/lweb.cfa.harvard.edu\/~loeb\/Interstellar_Expedition.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">study<\/a>, the\u200d spherules\u200c contain beryllium,\u200b lanthanum, and uranium, collectively referred to as &#8220;BeLaU.&#8221; The study proposes\u200d that the unique &#8220;BeLaU&#8221; abundance pattern found in these\u2064 spheres does not match any known alloys or meteorites\u2063 within our solar system. Instead, it suggests \u2064that these patterns could have originated from a planet with an iron core\u200b outside our solar system\u2063 or from\u2064 more exotic sources.<\/p>\n<p>The expedition to the South Pacific was\u2064 first announced in January, with Loeb \u2064sharing\u2062 his motivations for the journey in a post on Medium.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cWithin a couple of months, I will be leading an expedition to \u2062collect fragments of the first interstellar\u200c meteor,\u201d wrote Loeb. \u201cThis\u200d meteor is the first near-Earth object ever detected by humans\u200b from outside the solar system. We\u2062 have assembled\u2062 a\u200d dream\u2062 team, including highly experienced professionals in ocean expeditions. Our plans include the design and manufacturing of specialized equipment such as sleds, magnets, collection\u2062 nets, and mass spectrometers.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Harvard physicist professor found evidence suggesting that remnants from a meteor-like object may have originated from beyond our solar system. Professor Avi Loeb and his team collected around 700 small metallic spheres from an impact site near Manus Island, Papua New Guinea. 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