Localizing The First Interstellar Meteor With Seismometer Data
Earth and Planetary Astrophysics
2023-05-09 v2
Abstract
The first meter-scale interstellar meteor (IM1) was detected by US government sensors in 2014, identified as an interstellar object candidate in 2019, and confirmed by the Department of Defense (DoD) in 2022. We use data from a nearby seismometer to localize the fireball to a region within the zone allowed by the precision of the DoD-provided coordinates. The improved localization is of great importance for a forthcoming expedition to retrieve the meteor fragments.
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@article{arxiv.2303.07357,
title = {Localizing The First Interstellar Meteor With Seismometer Data},
author = {Amir Siraj and Abraham Loeb},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2303.07357},
year = {2023}
}
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4 pages, 4 figures; submitted for publication