Scientists have found extraterrestrial aliens for the first time in a meteorite that fell in 2021 in the UK. Here’s all you need to know.
Scientists and researchers are trying to find every bit of evidence that can shed light on the existence of life beyond Earth. Water is said to be one of the most prominent evidence points towards signs of life. Last year, in February, a meteorite crashed and landed on a driveway in the UK town of Gloucestershire and now scientists have found foreign Earth in the meteorite, according to a report Latest. This is a historic event because it happened for the first time. Water found in meteorites is thought to have some answers as to where the water in Earth’s oceans comes from.
Ashley King, a researcher in the planetary materials group at the Natural History Museum, reported that about 12 percent of the sample is made up of water, and it is also the least contaminated specimen collected so far. now, according to a reported in The Independent. He added that the composition of the water found on the meteorite was ‘very, very similar’ to the composition of water on Earth.
According to the report, the researcher told the British Science Festival, “It’s a really good piece of evidence that asteroids and bodies like Winchcombe have made a very important contribution to Earth’s oceans.”
He also confirmed that the 0.5kg meteorite was recovered within 12 hours of the crash so it was not contaminated by water and minerals present on Earth. Meanwhile, according to another report by Sky NewsNow “one of the big questions we ask in planetary science is where does the water on Earth come from? And one of the obvious places is through comets there’s a lot of ice in there,” King said. , or asteroids. That’s always been up for debate – are comets the primary source, are asteroids the primary source?”
However, he also went on to explain that data from missions to comets show that they don’t match well with water on Earth. “The composition of the water in Winchcombe is much more consistent, so that means that asteroids – carbonaceous asteroids – could be the main source of water for the inner solar system of Earth,” he said. ” he said.
The meteorite that fell in the UK in 2021 came from an asteroid somewhere near Jupiter and was formed about 4.6 billion years ago. In addition, the meteorite’s journey to Earth takes about 3,00,000 years, King said.
Do you know?
A meteorite is a solid debris from an object, such as an asteroid, comet, meteorite, that survives a trip through the atmosphere and hits the ground. In addition, NASA has deployed leading-edge technology and created a network of 17 cameras known as the NASA All Sky Fireball Network, which aims to observe meteors in the sky brighter than Venus, known as the fire ball.
Canada’s CMOR (Canadian Meteor Orbit Radar) can detect meteors around 0.04 inches (1 millimeter across) and can detect the speed, direction, and position of these small objects. Canada’s Southern Ontario Meteor Network also has cameras similar to those of NASA.
