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Avi Loeb

Person 3 stories, 2022 to 2024

A Harvard astronomer. His name turns up wherever an anomaly has a hard physics question at its core. In 2019 he and Harvard undergraduate Amir Siraj studied a meteor with a catalogued entry speed of 44.8 km/s. They named it IM1, the first known interstellar meteor. That led to the 2023 expedition he headed to find its spherules. He also offered his own readings of other cases. In the Kyiv observatory study of 2022, he argued that cutting the distances tenfold made the objects fit artillery shells. In the 2024 Yemen Orb strike, he proposed a Houthi Samad drone grazed by the missile.