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

[Anne Black]

more information on that "rock" 

Anne BlackIMPACTIKA.comimpactika at aol.com


-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Mikuska <1microchem at gmail.com>
To: Anne Black <impactika at aol.com>
Sent: Fri, Mar 24, 2023 3:45 pm
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] CNEOS1 2014-01-08 hunt in P.N.G. Harvard physicist Avi Loeb is organizing a $1.5 million expedition

This article presents a good explanation of the problem.  One item that no one has openly talked about is: just because something is supposedlyi hard,  does not mean that it is chemically stable in an aqueous environment or is still in a solid phase.
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On Mar 24, 2023, at 1:49 PM, Anne Black <impactika at aol.com> wrote:
For your entertainment.(Read bottom to top). 

Anne BlackIMPACTIKA.comimpactika at aol.com


-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Hammergren via Meteorite-list <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
To: Rob Matson <mojave_meteorites at cox.net>
Cc: Michael Farmer <mike at meteoriteguy.com>; Paul Swartz via Meteorite-list <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Fri, Mar 24, 2023 8:30 am
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] CNEOS1 2014-01-08 hunt in P.N.G. Harvard physicist Avi Loeb is organizing a $1.5 million expedition

Agreed on all points. This is worse than nonsense: Avi Loeb and his tabloid-quality antics make a mockery of SETI and astrobiology. Public and congressional ridicule of a "search for little green men" doomed the NASA High Resolution Microwave Survey in the early 90's. It would have surveyed the sky in millions of frequencies using the Arecibo radio telescope, partially for SETI purposes, and was already funded and running after a decade of development. I worked with people who were employed in that project and who had the rug pulled out from under their feet with essentially no warning. Some had to leave the field of astronomy to find other employment. Serious SETI research did not recover from that disaster for more than 20 years. What will Loeb advocate "studying" next? Chemtrails? HAARP mind control? Qanon? Disgusting.
On Fri, Mar 24, 2023, 9:53 AM Rob Matson via Meteorite-list <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com> wrote:

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 


Sent from Smallbiz Yahoo Mail for iPhoneOn 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 ProbeMarch 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______________________________________________Meteorite-list mailing listMeteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
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