![\"Harvard](\"https:\/\/c.ndtvimg.com\/2019-07\/gbluoplg_cigarshaped-interstellar-object-oumuamua-_625x300_02_July_19.jpg\"\/ "\\"Harvard")
<\/div>\nThe things that Professor Avi Loeb’s team found include 50 spherules.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
A Harvard University professor has found some “promising material” while searching for the remains of the first confirmed interstellar object to fall to the Earth. Professor Avi Loeb launched a dredging project two weeks ago to explore the depths of the Pacific Ocean for proof he needed. According to Encyclopaedia Britannica, two interstellar objects – that entered the solar system from interstellar space – have been discovered in recent years: ‘Oumuamua’, which was discovered in 2017, and Comet Borisov, which was discovered in 2019.<\/p>\n
Professor Loeb started a blog on Medium<\/a> in which he gave updates about the $1.5 million expedition.<\/p>\n The things that his team found include 50 spherules – small spheres of material mere millimetres in diameter that are characteristically shed from meteorites as they enter and burn up in Earth’s atmosphere.<\/p>\n The spherules were captured by a large magnetic sled across the ocean floor off the coast of Papua New Guinea.<\/p>\n “As molten droplets from a fireball, they carry information about the elemental and isotopic composition of the first recognised interstellar meteor,” Professor Loeb wrote in the blog.<\/p>\n “Aside from spherules, we recovered anomalous objects, such as a manganese-platinum wire, an iron peanut, an iron bean, as well as corroded iron shards… we will study these anomalous items in great detail,” he further said.<\/p>\n