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A 2014 meteor may have come from another solar system

Such alien visitors could graze Earth’s atmosphere once a decade, scientists suggest

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SHOOTING STAR  Meteors from other planetary systems may have been able to bring life to the early Earth, two astronomers suggest.

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By Lisa Grossman

- More than 2 years ago

Earth may already have been visited by an object from outside our solar system — a meteor that burned up in the planet’s atmosphere in 2014, astronomers claim.