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Peak-Brightness Localization of the CNEOS 2014-01-08 (IM1) Fireball

March 12, 2024

In a recent preprint, Fernando et al. (2024) used public data from infrasound stations to constrain the localization of the fireball of the CNEOS 2014-01-08 (IM1) bolide. The analysis inferred a 90%-confidence ellipse with semi-minor and semi- major axes of 186 and 388 km, respectively. This large error ellipse includes the much better localization box derived by sensors aboard U.S. Government satellites which detected the fireball light. At the fireball’s peak brightness, the CNEOS localization box documented by NASA/JPL measures 11.112 km on a side and is centered on a latitude of 1.3...

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Interstellar meteors may have formed from extreme tidal disruption events

March 11, 2024

New paper proposes violent beginnings for high-velocity interstellar meteors such as IM1

HARVARD UNIVERSITY, CAMBRIDGE, MA — March 10, 2024 — The Galileo Project at Harvard University announced the publication of the latest paper to emerge from the IM1 meteor retrieval expedition off the coast of Papua New Guinea. Published in the peer-reviewed journal Astronomy & Astrophysics, the new paper describes a process by which extraordinary tidal...

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Memorandum of Understanding between the University of Technology (Unitech) in Papua New-Guinea and Harvard University

September 21, 2023

The Galileo Project at Harvard and the PNG University of Technology formalize collaboration in scientific retrieval and analysis of meteorite fragments

CAMBRIDGE, USA/LAE, PAPUA NEW GUINEA — August 21, 2023 — Today Harvard University and the Papua New Guinea University of Technology (Unitech) announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding, formalizing the two institutions’ research collaborations around the scientific retrieval and analysis of fragments from meteorites on the ocean floor with the aim of identifying the first interstellar...

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