NASA will explore fragments of meteorites in the Pacific Ocean

A huge and strange meteorite sank to the surface of the Earth and was submerged in the Pacific Ocean on March 7, 1945. This blazing meteorite, hot shot, was observed by Marc Fries, a NASA's global scientist, who stated that she was somewhere in the National Marine Sanctuary of the Olympic Coast of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

Fries, the Cosmic Dust Curator of the US Space Agency, said at the time that this meteorite was as big as a typical golf cart, which was reduced to many fragments weighing about two tons taken together.

Now, about four months later, Fries and a team of marine scientists have planned to take these pieces of meteorite out of the ocean. Fries said that such an activity has not yet been realized, but it would be worth it. He claimed that these meteorite fragments are very different. The researcher explained, "This one is special, it's harder than your typical meteor."

This meteorite fall is the largest Fries ever recorded using weather radar. Unlike other meteorites, this meteorite would have space rocks that do not crack, break or burn in the Earth 's atmosphere. However, to fully understand this celestial object, researchers must retrieve fragments under the ocean for later badysis.

The team of researchers badyzed the radar information captured by the NOAA NEXRAD system and seismometers positioned on Earth. as well as under the ocean and concluded that the area of ​​impact was about 0.4 square miles (about 1 square kilometer). Research has even shown that larger pieces of meteorites can weigh about 4.4 kilograms with a width of almost twelve centimeters

. For this mission, NASA collaborated with Ocean Exploration Trust (OET). ) and reportedly used his flagship Nautilus to hunt meteorites.

This meteorite exploration mission would be led by Dr. Nicole Raineault, Vice President of Exploration and Scientific Operations of the Ocean Exploration Trust. The mission would use "deep sea robots" known as remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) to sweep the bottom of the ocean.