Smoking Gun: Fifty years of study by Bill Napier et al. vindicated in new paper

Taurid Meteor Stream pummels planet throughout human history, remains menace; Nobel Prize for UK Neo-Catastrophists?

October 12, 2021

A comprehensive study of the Taurid meteor stream released last week confirms a central understanding of astronomer Dr. Bill Napier and the Comet Research Group, one which was incorporated into the YDI hypothesis from the start. From Discover Magazine: The longest-studied comets in our solar system have inspired ancient myths, religious fervor and modern scientific…

Open Letter: Napier on Defant and the Joe Rogan podcast

June 25, 2017

Bill Napier sent the Tusk a note regarding Joe Rogan’s unforgettable debate-style podcast on the Younger Dryas Boundary Hypothesis. Bill’s message is posted below my rant here. His informed correction of Marc Defant’s self-styled skeptical authority on comets is priceless and instructive. A cultural genre of all-purpose professional “skeptics,” like Defant and Shermer, have emerged…

Cosmic Tusk Interview: Dr. Bill Napier

October 27, 2015

The Paper The Tusk has been interested for some time in conducting an occasional interview with players in fields related to cosmic catastrophes in human times. So much of the coverage of our subject is “drive-by” journalism, with uninformed reporters on deadline asking shallow, often misinformed, questions of key scientists and then writing a…

Napier Paper: Giant comets and mass extinctions of life

March 10, 2015

Love Notes: Napier takes down The Bos on disintegrating comets in space; Tusk lends hand

October 31, 2013

Napier on the Recent Russian Blast, Phil Plait, the Harvard Discovery of Platinum in The Younger Dryas — and Intellectual Integrity

February 15, 2013

“I’m trying to piece together what happened from the videos. First of all, I do not think this is related in any way to the asteroid 2102 DA14! For one thing, this occurred about 16 hours before DA14 passes. At 8 kilometers per second that’s nearly half a million kilometers away from DA14. That…

Napier: Not So Fast Bos….

Restored from the library fire 1/11/20

February 13, 2013

The banner image above is Comet 73/P Schwassman-Wachmann fragmenting in orbit ABSTRACT Intersection with the debris of a large (50-100 km) short-period comet during the Upper Palaeolithic provides a satisfactory explanation for the catastrophe of celestial origin which has been postulated to have occurred around 12900 BP, and which pre-saged a return to ice…

Journal of Cosmology (Part I): Napier

May 14, 2010

Today I added a link to the ‘Great Link’s on the right sidebar to a fine ET extinction and Younger Dryas Boundary round-robin thrown last year by the Journal of Cosmology. The Journal solicited a number of distinguished contributers both supportive and dismissive of the idea the earth encountered a game-changing cosmic swarm 13,000 years ago. These papers make excellent fodder for the…

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

April 25, 2010

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…

Napier invokes Whipple: Challenges NASA’s Morrison

April 8, 2010

[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…

Napier telegraphs from Old Country: Eats lunch of NASA’s Morrison, USA

April 7, 2010

TEXT OF BILL NAPIER’S REPLY to the [Morrison paper in Skeptical Inquirer] forwarded by Leroy Ellenberger: “It is too late to add anything on Napier’s paper. My colleagues who do dynamics are unimpressed with this work, however, and they consider it to be almost as unreasonable as the original Firestone et al. impact hypothesis.”…

“COMET THAT KILLED MAMMOTHS COULD STRIKE AGAIN” — Discovery News on Napier paper

April 1, 2010

http://news.discovery.com/earth/comet-that-killed-mammoths-could-strike-again.html…

Royal Astronomical Society touts new Napier paper

April 1, 2010

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…

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

March 20, 2010

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…

Tusk prompts Grondine to query Napier on Dark, Dead comets and the effort to find them

March 20, 2010

From E.P. Grondine on Meteorite List: Following a quote at https://cosmictusk.com from astronomer Bill Napier on the abilities of WISE to detect dead comet fragments, I wrote him asking him about it. As his reply also deals with some meteorites’ parent bodies (Tagish Lake being prominent) and the composition of comet cores, I think…

New Scientist: WISE mission finding yet more dark, dead comets predicted by Napier

March 8, 2010

Now visible comet from WISE in infrared In an earlier post I noted that last month NASA had mentioned WISE finding dark and dead comets for the first time (at least as recorded on the Internet). I thought it kind of odd that well into a mission the agency begins speaking of a dangerous…

Thar She Blows! Napier paper goes public

March 4, 2010

Hubble pictures of fragment B of comet Schwassmann-Wachmann 3 taken on three successive days (April 18, 19 and 20of 2006) during its disintegration. Napier Astro Model Ras…

False Alarm: Cornell site still protecting Napier paper

March 3, 2010

Unfortunately my tip regarding the Cornell site does not seem to work until (perhaps) the article is actually published. Working to find out more… “You can’t claim ownership of 1003.0744. We do not allow people other than the authors of an article to claim ownership of an article before it has been publicly announced. Historically,…

Public Access: Napier’s Royal Astronomical Society paper now available on web

March 3, 2010

I just heard the Napier pap(i)er providing an astronomical context for the YD event can be had on the public access site here: Cornell University Library. I plugged in my name and am waiting for the verification code to be sent by email. I’ll try to put the paper up on Scribed — if that…

Royal Astronomical Society: Napier provides astronomical model for YDB Impact Event

February 28, 2010

Bill Napier has a significant paper coming out soon in the Monthly Bulletin of the Royal Astronomical Society, and I got a look at it pre-publication. While I cant share the paper itself, I can share the abstract STRIKE and a few snippets STRIKE. The paper is significant because for the first time…

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Smoking Gun: Fifty years of study by Bill Napier et al. vindicated in new paper

Taurid Meteor Stream pummels planet throughout human history, remains menace; Nobel Prize for UK Neo-Catastrophists?

Open Letter: Napier on Defant and the Joe Rogan podcast

Cosmic Tusk Interview: Dr. Bill Napier

Napier Paper: Giant comets and mass extinctions of life

Love Notes: Napier takes down The Bos on disintegrating comets in space; Tusk lends hand

Napier on the Recent Russian Blast, Phil Plait, the Harvard Discovery of Platinum in The Younger Dryas — and Intellectual Integrity

Napier: Not So Fast Bos….

Restored from the library fire 1/11/20

Journal of Cosmology (Part I): Napier

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

Napier invokes Whipple: Challenges NASA’s Morrison

Napier telegraphs from Old Country: Eats lunch of NASA’s Morrison, USA

“COMET THAT KILLED MAMMOTHS COULD STRIKE AGAIN” — Discovery News on Napier paper

Royal Astronomical Society touts new Napier paper

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

Tusk prompts Grondine to query Napier on Dark, Dead comets and the effort to find them

New Scientist: WISE mission finding yet more dark, dead comets predicted by Napier

Thar She Blows! Napier paper goes public

False Alarm: Cornell site still protecting Napier paper

Public Access: Napier’s Royal Astronomical Society paper now available on web

Royal Astronomical Society: Napier provides astronomical model for YDB Impact Event

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