Alien World Chemistry Found Inside Meteorite That Struck New Jersey Home

Source paper: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aea2105

The real jackpot here is how this large chunk happened to impact a home belonging to an astute and prepared individual:

  He then immediately preserved and documented the entire scene using disposable gloves and aluminum foil to place the meteorite fragments in glass jars.

Did someone pay him for the rare meteorite? At least enough to fix the roof?

Who should one contact if this happens?

its like we can explore the universe from our living room

"Our cameras in Northford, Connecticut, and Douglassville, Pennsylvania, as well as a doorbell camera in Wayne, New Jersey, captured the meteor, and from that we measured its trajectory... The path traced back to low in the asteroid belt."

I don't doubt it, but that's an astounding trajectory estimation...

Scene one of a Steven Spielberg movie.

> Researchers found preserved bits from near the surface of the original asteroid where it experienced concentrated salty fluids

Are we sure the guy who picked it up didn't just wash it with some sort of detergent after it cooled off?

> Only one was recovered because it hit a house.

You lost me there.

Is recovery possible only if a house is hit??

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Browsing that site, The SETI Institute appears to have expanded beyond its original goal of finding extraterrestrial intelligence into astrobiology and more. Perhaps the first attempts at detecting alien radio signals hoped too much?

I have little doubt that, given the infinite size of the universe, that extraterrestrial intelligence (of some sort) exists, the question is whether we will ever detect it... It perhaps even exists as close to us as Europa, should we attempt a landing there...