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As labs study possible fragments of a meteor that might have been more than it seemed, we must keep looking for any signs of extraterrestrial life, argues astrophysicist Avi Loeb in his new book
By Simon Ings
A meteor traverses the night sky. Could other meteors originate outside our solar system?
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Interstellar
Avi Loeb (John Murray)
ON 8 January 2014, a meteor exploded above the Pacific just north of Papua New Guinea’s Manus Island. Five years later, Amir Siraj, research assistant for Avi Loeb, an astrophysicist at Harvard University, spotted it in an online catalogue at the Center for Near-Earth Object Studies, part of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
Part-way through Interstellar: The search for extraterrestrial life and our future beyond Earth, Loeb explains why he thinks the …
