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Harvard researcher on meteor hunt
Harvard physicist Avi Loeb is leading an expedition to PNG to recover a meteorite that fell there in 2014.(Supplied: Avi Loeb)
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Harvard physicist Avi Loeb is leading an expedition to Papua New Guinea to try and uncover a meteor that landed there in 2014.

It was the first very rare interstellar meteorite ever documented, and has scientists questioning if it could be artificially made.

Avi Loeb believes the meteor could potentially be a relic of an alien civilisation.

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Avi Loeb, Physicist, Harvard University

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