ANKARA - US Space Command on Wednesday confirmed that scientists discovered the first known interstellar meteor to ever hit the Earth. The meteor, which is known as CNEOS 2014-01-08, crash-landed along the northeast coast of Papua New Guinea on Jan. 8, 2014, CNN quoted a US Space Command document as saying. The finding came as a surprise for Amir Siraj, who identified the object as an interstellar meteor in a 2019 study he co-authored while an undergraduate at Harvard University, the media outlet reported. Siraj was working with Harvard University's Abraham Loeb, a professor of science, to investigate "Oumuamua," the solar system's first known interstellar object discovered in 2017, it added. Loeb and Siraj were unable to publish their findings in a journal because their data came from NASA's CNEOS database, which does not include information such as the accuracy of the measurements. After years of trying to obtain the necessary information, they received official
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