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Cycle of Cosmic Catastrophes pinned on fragmenting Taurid comet

In a nutshell, Napier’s study shows how comets are likely to fragment and lose considerable mass during encounters with the inner Solar System. The debris trail can expand to a cross section larger than Earth, increasing the odds of impacts with Earth. Also, the debris has considerable impact energy. But over time, that energy weakens, and the debris trail contracts again. ~Evan Gough, Universe…
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BANG: New York Times publishes comprehensive and fair Sunday feature article on the Younger Dryas Event and the Comet Research Group

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Smoke Linked to Gun: Napier upheld by Nesvorný and Jenniskens on Zodiacal Cloud and short-period Comets

Richard Kerr, the oldest rat in the barn over at Tusk competitor Science Magazine, has written a disturbingly matter-of-fact piece reporting the myth busting work of David Nesvorný and Peter Jenniskens (hereafter N&J) on the source of Interplanetary Dust and the Zodiacal Cloud. N&J are the same fellows who last month deduced massive ancient meteoritic airburts in Antarctica from ice…
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2021 Tall el-Hammam study makes final Jeopardy! question

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Napier invokes Whipple: Challenges NASA's Morrison

[Whipple Obit] In an independent defense of  David Morrison’s ham-handed screed in the (giggle) Skeptical Inquirer challenging the science of the YDB event, respected British astronomer Bill Napier invokes some greats of the past — in particular, Fred Whipple of Harvard, the grandfather of American comet science — in support of his central claim that the Taurid complex of…
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Charles Appleton Day

2021 Tall el-Hammam study makes final Jeopardy! question

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Royal Astronomical Society touts new Napier paper

Napier paper: Palaeolithic extinctions and the Taurid Complex When the story books are re-written, the increasing — but uncoordinated — coherence between the Brit Neo-Catastrophists and the American YDB team will make interesting study for students of science history.   These two groups have no overlap but the facts are leading them to the same place.  Ditto for the Holocene Impact…
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Charles Appleton Day

2021 Tall el-Hammam study makes final Jeopardy! question

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Rare Bill Napier Essay: Giant Comets -- Messengers of Life and Death

GIANT COMETS — MESSENGERS OF LIFE AND DEATH William P. Napier (Appeared in an anthology: “God, the universe and men – Why do we exist?” (ed. Wabbel, T.D.), Patmos, Dusseldorf, 2003 (original in German). A Neolithic comet Comets are jokers in the celestial pack. They irrupt, usually without forewarning, into the orderly progression of the sky. They cross the celestial sphere in…
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Charles Appleton Day

2021 Tall el-Hammam study makes final Jeopardy! question