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

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.” David Morrison, NASA, Addendum to…
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Charles Appleton Day

2021 Tall el-Hammam study makes final Jeopardy! question

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

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

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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Charles Appleton Day

2021 Tall el-Hammam study makes final Jeopardy! question

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

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 phenomena that had not been previously and specifically identified as quarry for the Infrared Telescope.  Mind…
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Charles Appleton Day

2021 Tall el-Hammam study makes final Jeopardy! question

Charles Appleton Day

2021 Tall el-Hammam study makes final Jeopardy! question

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False Alarm: Cornell site still protecting Napier paper

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, some authors have given the article…
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Charles Appleton Day

2021 Tall el-Hammam study makes final Jeopardy! question

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

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 is within the rules.  Then you can flip through it right here at The Tusk without signing in.
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Charles Appleton Day

2021 Tall el-Hammam study makes final Jeopardy! question

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

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 it provides an astronomical context for the 12,900 event.  Napier shows that the event is…
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Charles Appleton Day

2021 Tall el-Hammam study makes final Jeopardy! question