
US military confirms an interstellar meteor collided with Earth
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A meteor crashed into the Pacific Ocean in 2014, but it wasn't until Harvard scientists researched its velocity and trajectory five years later that they learned it came from outside our solar system.
Researchers discovered the first known interstellar meteor to ever hit Earth, according to a recently released United States Space Command document. An interstellar meteor is a space rock that originates from outside our solar system -- a rare occurrence.
This one is known as CNEOS 2014-01-08, and it crash-landed along the northeast coast of Papua New Guinea on January 8, 2014.
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