[meteorite-list] Claims of Extrasolar Spherules from Pacific Ocean Site CNEOS 2014-01-08 Disputed
Paul
etchplain at att.net
Wed Mar 13 15:16:00 EDT 2024
Recently, a preprint has been posted to the arXiv site that
disputes proposal that Be,La,U-rich spherules recovered form
Pacific Ocean Site CNEOS 2014-01-0 are from an extrasolar
origin. Instead, they argued to be microtektites of terrestrial
lateritic sandstone.
The preprint is:
Desch, S., 2024. Be, La, U-rich spherules as
microtektites of terrestrial laterites: What goes \\
up must come down. arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.05161.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.05161
https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/2403/2403.05161.pdf
The proposed extrasolar spherules are discussed in:
Loeb, A., Adamson, T., Bergstrom, S., Cloete, R.,
Cohen, S., Conrad, K., Domine, L., Fu, H., Hoskinson,
C., Hyung, E., Jacobsen, S., Kelly, M., Kohn, J., Lard,
E., Lam, S., Laukien, F., Lem, J., McCallum, R.,
Millsap, R., Parendo, C., Petaev, M., Peddeti, C.,
Pugh, K., Samuha, S., Sasselov, D., Schlereth, M.,
Siler, J.J., Siraj, A., Smith, P.M., Tagle, R., Taylor,
J., Weed, R., Wright, A., and Wynn, J. 2023.,
Discovery of Spherules of likely extrasolar composition
in the Pacific Ocean site of the CNEOS 2014-01-08
(IM1) bolide. arXiv preprint 2308.15623
https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.15623
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2308.15623.pdf
Loeb, A., Adamson, T., Bergstrom, S., Cloete, R.,
Cohen, S., Conrad, K., Domine, L., Fu, H.,
Hoskinson, C., Hyung, E., Jacobsen, S., Kelly, M.,
Kohn, J., Lard, E., Laukien, F., Lem, J., McCallum, R.,
Millsap, R., Parendo, C., Petaev, M., Peddeti, C.,
Pugh, K., Samuha, S., Sasselov, D., Schlereth, M.,
Siler, J.J., Siraj, A., Smith, P.M., Tagle, R., Taylor, J.,
Weed, R., Wright, A., and Wynn, J. 2024. Recovery
and classification of spherules from the Pacific Ocean
site of the CNEOS 2014 January 8 (IM1) bolide.
Research Notes of the American Astronomical Society 8: 39.
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ad2370/meta
Related paper, reprint and press release:
Desch, S., and Jackson, A., 2023. Critique of arXiv
submission 2308.15623, "Discovery of Spherules of
Likely Extrasolar Composition in the Pacific Ocean
Site of the CNEOS 2014-01-08 (IM1) Bolide", by A.
Loeb et al arXiv:2311.07699
https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.07699
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2311.07699.pdf
'Alien' spherules dredged from the Pacific are probably just
industrial pollution, new studies suggest. LiveScience, Nov. 16, 2023
https://www.livescience.com/space/extraterrestrial-life/alien-spherules-dredged-from-the-pacific-are-probably-just-industrial-pollution-new-studies-suggest
Gallardo, P.A., 2023. Anthropogenic Coal Ash as a Contaminant
in a Micro-meteoritic Underwater Search. Research Notes of the
AAS, 7(10), p.220.
http://ispcjournal.org/journals/2024/32/PhC_vol_32_Lomas.pdf
Yours,
Paul H.
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