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🗓️ 19 March 2024
⏱️ 21 minutes
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0:00.0 | Amir Sirage was looking for a meteor. |
0:05.0 | You know, I was laughing at myself at that point because it sounded so crazy. |
0:10.0 | At least he was dreaming about it. |
0:13.0 | I had a lot of dreams for this object, but you know most of them felt too silly to talk about. |
0:22.0 | And not just any meteor, one that had traveled across the universe, |
0:28.0 | and was now maybe, maybe, lying in teeny tiny pieces at the bottom of our ocean. |
0:38.2 | A few years ago, |
0:39.5 | Amir had been a sophomore at Harvard University |
0:42.0 | studying astrophysics, and as part of his work he combed through a |
0:46.0 | database of meteor impacts supplied by the Department of Defense and as he did, he spotted something strange. |
0:55.0 | I kept getting this one a weird result for a meteor that hit the earth in 2014. An object moving at an astonishing speed, something about the |
1:08.8 | size of a microwave that had smashed into Earth's atmosphere at 100,000 miles per hour. |
1:15.0 | This came down and exploded in the atmosphere about 20 kilometers above the Earth's surface, |
1:22.0 | north of Manus Island in Papua New Guinea. |
1:26.8 | So it was quite a spectacular explosion, I think like 1% of the Hiroshima bomb. |
1:35.0 | This was not an ordinary space rock. |
1:38.0 | A meir had discovered the first evidence of a meteor that had traveled from outside of our solar system, an |
1:46.5 | interstellar rock that had smashed into us. |
1:49.8 | But for Amir, it was not enough to just know it existed. |
1:53.0 | He wanted to find it. |
1:56.4 | So he started thinking. |
1:57.4 | It's a crazy idea, but what if we took a boat? |
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