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He is indeed the second visitor among the stars to burn up in Earth’s atmosphere
The solar system seems to have regular visitors from the outside. Not only are larger pieces like the cigar-shaped Oumuamua or the large 500m 2I/Borisov likely to be of interstellar origin. “Aliens” smaller than the great void between the stars seem to come over and over again – and every now and then one of them falls to Earth. In the past, researchers were already able to identify such a meteorite without a doubt as a newcomer. A team from Harvard University in Cambridge near Boston is now Confirmation from a second interstellar meteorite succeeded.
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