{"id":89639,"date":"2019-04-17T12:42:24","date_gmt":"2019-04-17T19:42:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/an-interstellar-rock-like-oumuamua-may-have-hit-earth-in-2014"},"modified":"2019-04-17T12:42:24","modified_gmt":"2019-04-17T19:42:24","slug":"an-interstellar-rock-like-oumuamua-may-have-hit-earth-in-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/an-interstellar-rock-like-oumuamua-may-have-hit-earth-in-2014","title":{"rendered":"An Interstellar Rock Like \u2018Oumuamua May Have Hit Earth In 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/an-interstellar-rock-like-oumuamua-may-have-hit-earth-in-20142.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Unusual Trajectory<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The new research hasn\u2019t yet been published, but it\u2019s available on the <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/1904.07224\">preprint server ArXiv<\/a> as of Monday. In it, Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb \u2014 the same dude who doubled down on the idea that \u2018Oumuamua <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/alien-probe-harvard-astronomer-oumuamua\">could be an alien spacecraft<\/a> \u2014 suggests that a three-foot-wide interstellar meteor flew over Papa New Guinea\u2019s Manus Island before crashing down.<\/p>\n<p>Because of the meteor\u2019s high speed and particular trajectory past Earth, Loeb and his student Amir Suraj suggest that it couldn\u2019t have been bound in an orbit about the Sun. Rather, they argue, it might have come from somewhere beyond our solar system.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/interstellar-rock-hit-earth-2014\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unusual Trajectory The new research hasn\u2019t yet been published, but it\u2019s available on the preprint server ArXiv as of Monday. In it, Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb \u2014 the same dude who doubled down on the idea that \u2018Oumuamua could be an alien spacecraft \u2014 suggests that a three-foot-wide interstellar meteor flew over Papa New Guinea\u2019s [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527,36,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life","category-asteroid-comet-impacts","category-existential-risks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89639\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}