CNEOS 2014-01-08

CNEOS 2014-01-08 (also known as Interstellar meteor 1; IM1), is a putative interstellar object reported in June 2019 by astronomers Amir Siraj and Abraham Loeb, and confirmed by the United States Space Command in April 2022. The discovery was publicized in 2019 in a preprint announcing a 0.45 m (1.5 ft) meteor detected on 8 January 2014 near the northeast coast of Papua New Guinea.

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