To: SunkenCiv
Thought you'd like to post a link to this from your Catastrophism thread.
11 posted on
07/22/2006 5:51:57 AM PDT by
Berosus
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To: Berosus; 75thOVI; AndrewC; Avoiding_Sulla; BenLurkin; CGVet58; chilepepper; ckilmer; demlosers; ...
Thanks Berosus, good idea. Raup authored a book ("The Nemesis Affair: a Story of the Death of Dinosaurs and the Ways of Science",1986, 0393023427) which claimed the periodic mass extinctions were due to a dark companion of the Sun kicking loose Oort Cloud objects. No such dark companion has been found, and I think the world is coming around to the (correct, IMHO) view that the mass extinction impact events have been caused by NEOs.
81 posted on
07/22/2006 7:28:47 AM PDT by
SunkenCiv
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