[meteorite-list] CNEOS1 2014-01-08 hunt in P.N.G. Harvard physicist Avi Loeb is organizing a $1.5 million expedition

[Rob Matson]

I’m with you, Mike – what the hell?! This is the stuff of tabloids. If people want to find an underwater meteorite, they can search the shore of Lake Ontario for the (much larger than sand) fragments of asteroid 2022 WJ1 that impacted there November last year, or the western edge of Lake Michigan for the bolide that broke up over it 6 years ago on Feb. 6th, 2017, appearing on 5 separate Doppler radars. In either case, the water is far, far shallower and the prospects better for success than finding anything (natural or artificial) over a mile underwater.  --Rob

From: Michael Farmer via Meteorite-list
Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2023 3:33 PM
To: drtanuki; Meteorite-list
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] CNEOS1 2014-01-08 hunt in P.N.G. Harvardphysicist Avi Loeb is organizing a $1.5 million expedition

Good grief. What nonsense. A mile deep. In the pacific  ocean. Particles the size of rice. Years under the water…… what a scam 


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On Thursday, March 23, 2023, 8:04 AM, drtanuki via Meteorite-list <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com> wrote:
https://dnyuz.com/2023/03/23/a-harvard-physicist-is-racing-to-prove-this-meteorite-is-an-alien-probe/

A Harvard Physicist Is Racing to Prove This Meteorite Is an Alien Probe
March 23, 2023

The world’s top alien hunter is about to embark on his most ambitious—and potentially history-making—mission yet. Harvard physicist Avi Loeb is organizing a $1.5-million expedition to Papua New Guinea to search for fragments of a very strange meteorite that impacted just off the coast of the Pacific nation in 2014.

There’s compelling evidence that the half-meter-wide meteorite, called CNEOS1 2014-01-08, traveled from outside our solar system. And that it’s made of extremely hard rock or metal—a material that’s hard and tough enough to prove the meteorite isn’t a meteorite at all. Maybe it’s an alien probe.

It’s a long-shot effort. After years of work, Loeb and his team have, with a big assist from the U.S. military, narrowed down CNEOS1 2014-01-08’s likely impact zone to a square kilometer of the ocean floor, nearly two kilometers underwater. But the fragments themselves are probably just a few millimeters in size. It’s worse than looking for a needle in a haystack. Loeb is basically preparing to look for big sand in a square-kilometer patch of small sand. ....more
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