In January of 2014, a meteor fell from space off the coast of Papua New Guinea. Last fall, Benjamin Fernando, a planetary seismologist at Johns Hopkins University, led a team that re-examined the nearby seismic signals and concluded that they were not evidence of the extraterrestrial, or anything close to it. Recently, he sat down with The New York Times to preview what his team had found. In 2014, a meteor entered the atmosphere and went “bang.” Sometimes, you hear these meteors on seismometers. Avi Loeb wrote a paper to say that he’d found the seismic signal from this meteor and that he’d used it to locate exactly where the meteor debris fell.

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Persons: Avi Loeb, Dr, Loeb, Benjamin Fernando, Fernando, he’d Organizations: Harvard, Johns Hopkins University, New York Times Locations: Papua New Guinea