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Loading contentA bright meteor (bolide) that entered Earth's atmosphere near Papua New Guinea on 8 January 2014, recorded in NASA CNEOS's fireball database. From the reported high velocity it was proposed in 2019 to have originated outside the Solar System, which would make it a candidate interstellar meteor. The claim is disputed: the underlying velocity data come from US Government sensors whose uncertainties are not public, and the interstellar interpretation is not accepted by the wider community. It is not a confirmed interstellar object.
DEBATED. The proposed interstellar origin rests on a velocity derived from US Government sensors whose error bars are not published; independent researchers have questioned whether the data support a hyperbolic, interstellar trajectory at all. A 2023 sea-floor expedition recovered spherules claimed to be from the object, but that identification is also contested. This record is a candidate/debated claim, not a confirmed interstellar object.
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