--- title: Chemical Composition of Unfamiliar Origin from the... description: US government satellites detected a fireball from a meteor labeled IM1, which was found to have an interstellar origin. Fragments from IM1 were retrieved and... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/chemical-composition-of-unfamiliar-origin-from-the-pacific-ocean-site-of-the-im1-meteor-2l0yiz2bh twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Chemical Composition of Unfamiliar Origin from the Pacific Ocean Site of the IM1 Meteor | daily.dev og:description: US government satellites detected a fireball from a meteor labeled IM1, which was found to have an interstellar origin. Fragments from IM1 were retrieved and... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/chemical-composition-of-unfamiliar-origin-from-the-pacific-ocean-site-of-the-im1-meteor-2l0yiz2bh og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/2L0yIz2bh.png og:image:alt: Chemical Composition of Unfamiliar Origin from the Pacific Ocean Site of the IM1 Meteor og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Chemical Composition of Unfamiliar Origin from the Pacific Ocean Site of the IM1 Meteor **[Medium](https://daily.dev/sources/medium_js)** · 4 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary US government satellites detected a fireball from a meteor labeled IM1, which was found to have an interstellar origin. Fragments from IM1 were retrieved and analyzed, revealing a unique chemical composition called the "BeLaU"-type. The findings suggest that the spherules may have originated from differentiation in a magma ocean on an exo-planet with an iron core. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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