The First Meteor From Outside Our Solar System Collided With Earth in 2014, Confirm Scientists - The Swaddle


4/15/2022 12:00:00 AM3 yearsago
by Saumya Kalia

“It opens a new frontier where you're using the Earth as a fishing net for these objects.”

Around 25 million meteors of different sizes enter Earth from within our solar system every day. But when CNEOS 2014-01-08, a couch-sized meteor, illuminated the night sky along the northeast coast o… [+3195 chars]

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