Interstellar objects detected passing within Earth's orbit around the sun.
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The findings underscore both the scientific opportunity mixed with .... "looking up" vigilantly.
A Harvard scientist has suggested that our Solar System may be far more crowded with interstellar objects, chunks of rock or ice from other star systems, than anyone realized.
Avi Loeb, who made headlines for his controversial claim that 3I/ATLAS could be an alien spacecraft, presented new data and calculations indicating that roughly 35 million meter-scale interstellar objects are embedded inside Earth's orbit.
This conclusion comes from the detection of two interstellar meteor candidates, CNEOS-22 and CNEOS-25, recorded in 2022 over the Pacific and in 2025 over the Barents Sea in the Arctic.
The objects were small, about six feet and four feet across, but traveling fast enough to exceed the Solar System's escape velocity.
Loeb and his team estimated that such meteors collide with Earth about once every three years, implying a dense population of similar objects around the Sun.
Each meter-scale object could carry roughly three million tons of material, totaling about 220 billion tons within Earth's orbit.
Larger interstellar objects like 3I/ATLAS are far rarer, but their greater mass makes their total contribution similar, suggesting smaller objects may be fragments of bigger bodies.
Loeb said studying this population could reveal how material moves between star systems.
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Space junk !! Garbage ! Fireballs as well. Meteors. Shooting stars and debris .... 

When our eyes are to the Skies. 