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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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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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2021 Tall el-Hammam study makes final Jeopardy! question

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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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2021 Tall el-Hammam study makes final Jeopardy! question

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NASA mentions dark and dead comets for the first time: WISE looking for them

I have been interested for some time whether the WISE mission now underway is able to confirm or refute, in part, the widely dismissed theories of Bill Napier and the British NEO catastrophists.  In particular, that the solar system is host to dangerous dark bodies as well as the better known and more easily spotted bright comets and reflective asteroids.  [See:  Extreme albedo comets and the…
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2021 Tall el-Hammam study makes final Jeopardy! question