{"id":12672,"date":"2023-03-24T01:56:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-24T01:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=12672"},"modified":"2023-03-23T19:59:41","modified_gmt":"2023-03-23T19:59:41","slug":"cneos1-2014-01-08","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2023\/03\/24\/cneos1-2014-01-08\/","title":{"rendered":"CNEOS1 2014-01-08"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/harvards-avi-loeb-wants-to-prove-this-meteorite-is-an-alien-probe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from The Daily Beast<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A Harvard Physicist Is Racing to Prove This Meteorite Is an Alien Probe<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>Fragments of a peculiar meteorite crashed into the Pacific Ocean in 2014. Avi Loeb thinks they may be proof that intelligent extraterrestrials exist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>by David Axe<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12673\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image-980x551.png 980w, https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image-480x270.png 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1024px, 100vw\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson\/The Daily Beast\/Navicore<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The world\u2019s top alien hunter is about to embark on his most ambitious\u2014and potentially history-making\u2014mission 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There\u2019s compelling evidence that the half-meter-wide meteorite, called CNEOS1 2014-01-08, traveled from outside our solar system. And that it\u2019s made of extremely hard rock or metal\u2014a material that\u2019s hard and tough enough to prove the meteorite isn\u2019t a meteorite at all.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/harvard-astronomer-avi-loeb-says-there-might-be-4-quintillion-alien-spacecraft-in-our-solar-system\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Maybe it\u2019s an alien probe.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s 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\u2019s 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\u2019s worse than looking for a needle in a haystack. Loeb is basically preparing to look for\u00a0<em>big\u00a0<\/em>sand in a square-kilometer patch of\u00a0<em>small\u00a0<\/em>sand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/harvards-avi-loeb-wants-to-prove-this-meteorite-is-an-alien-probe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at TDB<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Daily Beast A Harvard Physicist Is Racing to Prove This Meteorite Is an Alien Probe Fragments of a peculiar meteorite crashed into the Pacific Ocean in 2014. Avi Loeb thinks they may be proof that intelligent extraterrestrials exist. by David Axe The world\u2019s top alien hunter is about to embark on his most [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12672\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}