Controversial Claim of Alien Spaceship Spherules and What They Probably Are
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Hello and welcome! My name is Anton and in this video, we will talk about the discovery of potentially extrasolar spherules by Avi Loeb and his team
Links:
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ad03f9
https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.15623
https://theconversation.com/have-we-really-found-the-first-samples-from-beyond-the-solar-system-the-evidence-is-not-convincing-212789
https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.07699
https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.02305
Oumuamua: https://youtu.be/hkZRUs8A_9Q
#meteor #aliens #astronomy
0:00 Oumuamua Object
0:25 Alien Probe?
1:05 Avi Loeb and his propositions
2:05 Original proposition and discovery of the meteor
2:45 A trip to find it in the ocean
3:40 Is it surprising they found stuff? no
4:40 Discovery of spherules and what they are
5:30 Belau spherules - strange composition or?
5:50 The main issue with this study
6:40 What happens to meteor when ablation kicks in
7:20 Different iron or not?
7:50 These are probably meteor pieces though
8:30 Is Uranium unusual in this sample?
9:00 Potential explanation for Uranium
9:40 Previous discoveries of extra solar grains - very different from this one
10:15 Potential ways of making sure this is not extrasolar
10:50 A recent study suggests these are just coal ash and not meteor samples
12:30 Contamination
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Avi Loeb
ESO/M. Kornmesser Derivative CC BY-SA 4.0 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CA%BBOumuamua#/media/File:Artist's_impression_of_%CA%BBOumuamua.jpg
nagualdesign CC BY-SA 4.0 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ʻOumuamua#/media/File:Oumuamua_light_curve_simulation.gif
Abraham (Avi) Loeb and Frank H. Laukien (possibly also other Galileo Project members) CC BY 4.0 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CNEOS_2014-01-08#/media/File:Location_of_CNEOS_2014-01-08_for_the_first_Galileo_Project_ocean_deep-water_expedition.png
Unknown author - http://images-of-elements.com/neodymium.php CC BY 3.0 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neodymium_magnet#/media/File:Nd-magnet.jpg
TUBS - CC BY-SA 3.0 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_Islands#/media/File:Marshall_Islands_on_the_globe_(small_islands_magnified)_(Polynesia_centered).svg
Glenn Adrian Banks https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Papua-New-Guinea-mining-operations-Source-PNG-Chamber-of-Mines-and-Petroleum_fig3_320506107
Cmichel67 CC BY-SA 4.0 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avi_Loeb#/media/File:Avi_Loeb_in_2023_02.jpg
Max Alexander, Starmus CC BY-SA 2.0 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jill_Tarter#/media/File:Jill_Tarter_at_Starmus_IV_Trondheim_2017.jpg
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