Harvard physicist plans expedition to find ‘alien artefact’ that fell from space

A prominent Harvard physicist is planning a Pacific expedition to find what he thinks might be an alien artefact that smashed into the ocean. Avi Loeb announced that he is organizing a $1.5 million ocean expedition to Papua New Guinea to look for fragments of an object that crashed off the coast of its Manus Island in 2014. Loeb noticed the object in 2019 and identified it as the first interstellar meteor ever discovered – meaning it originated outside our solar system.

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expedition：远征；探险队

Pacific：太平洋

artefact：人工制品

smash：打碎；粉碎

crash：崩溃

crashed off：坠毁

coast：海岸

interstellar：星际的（stellar 星球的）

meteor：流星

solar：太阳的

solar system：太阳系