[meteorite-list] interstellar meteorite anyone?

From: Carl Agee <agee_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2018 13:43:47 -0700
Message-ID: <CADYrzhpXYwjDndeS7eBF4wt60jLTOVyojNYkSf1PghiM8W=KQA_at_mail.gmail.com>

It is regrettable that Earthlings are not technologically advanced
enough to intercept and sample interstellar objects like `Oumuamua
which entered our solar system on a hyperbolic orbit and is now gone
forever. What a missed opportunity!

Carl
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On Wed, Mar 7, 2018 at 1:22 PM, Bigjohn Shea via Meteorite-list
<meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com> wrote:
> There are none we know of.
>
> https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.newscientist.com/article/2100887-canadian-meteorite-may-be-first-visitor-from-the-kuiper-belt/amp/
>
> That article speculates that Tagish Lake might have originated from the Kuiper Belt, but there is no way to confirm even that.
>
> Maybe someday Voyager will send us back a useful bit of data that somehow can connect a specimen to an interstellar source. ;-)
>
> Cheers,
> John A. Shea, MD
> IMCA 3295
>
>
>
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> On 3/7/18 at 1:45 PM, matija bericic via Meteorite-list wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> Does any of you maybe have in possession interstellar meteorite?
>> Thanks,
>> Matija
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