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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Copious ammonium may be evidence of a 50-billion-ton strike at the end of the ice age
Signs of giant comet impacts found in cores, Science News, March 30, 2010
By Sid Perkins
A new study cites spikes of ammonium in Greenland ice cores as evidence for a giant comet impact at the end of the last ice age, and suggests that the collision may have caused a brief, final cold snap before the climate…
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NASA put out another one of those creepy home made news articles today regarding the WISE mission finding dark objects. This one is even more condescending than usual, with the inane lede, “Imagine you are a Brontosaurus….”
Well, I am not a “Brontosaurus.” But I am keenly interested in what the hell WISE is finding up there and it is mighty hard to tell given the…
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Adrian Melott
[See here for a news article from December previewing Melott’s March publication.]
I’m still unpacking these two brand new papers from Adrian Melott and A.E. Carlson comparing the atmospheric signals of the Tunguska Event and the start of the Younger Dryas, but they appear relatively positive from standpoint of the YDB impact hypothesis.
The Melott paper is protected, so…
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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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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 meteorite list
participants should find it of interest, and here…
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