An interstellar rock may have hit Earth in 2014 but nobody noticed

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By Leah Crane

‘Oumuamua the “interstellar asteroid” would per chance simply no longer delight in been the important interstellar rock we’ve ever viewed. A meteor that burned up in Earth’s ambiance in 2014 would per chance simply delight in attain from a much away planetary system – and if it did, it was presumably from the state around the system’s superstar the keep aside existence would be in all likelihood to receive.

Daily, extra than 100 tonnes of state mud and rocks hit Earth’s ambiance, the keep aside most of it burns up earlier than it hits …