Discovery leads to controversy as scientists collect fragments from interstellar meteor | The World

An expedition to recover fragments from the first interstellar meteor known to have landed on Earth has attracted controversy in the Pacific. The ABC can reveal the Harvard team didn't have a research permit when they went to collect the materials in Papua New Guinea. ABC Pacific journalist Marian Faa tells The World there was a lot of eagerness by the US researchers to recover the meteorite pieces and study them.

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