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Whatever did all that was close, and not a third of a light year off. A soviet scientist by the name of S. K. Vsehsviatsky (at least in Roman letters) back in the 50s noted that the rapid decrease in short period comets since Roman times indicated a very recent source (within our system) for all of them and Velikovsky claimed that short period comets, volcanism, and earthquakes were all remnant phenomena from recent catastrophes which had all been damping more or less exponentially since Greco-Roman times .

I don't see any of that as an argument against the existence of this red dwarf Nemesis however and if Nemesis can be shown to exist, we need to get a look at it. One theory about habitable planets says that the most likely places for them would be around red dwarf stars.

http://www.archive.org/stream/earthupheaval010880mbp/earthupheaval010880mbp_djvu.txt

Excerpt:

And if we give credence to the records of earthquakes
in the chronicles of the ancient East and in those of the
classical age, we shall be amazed at the number of seismic
shocks and tremors. One example is the Babylonian rec-
ords on clay tablets stored in the library of Nineveh,
excavated by Sir Henry Layard; another is the Roman
records of a later age: in a single year during the Punic
Wars (217) fifty-seven earthquakes were reported in
Rome. 7

From all this it is apparent that seismic activity on our
planet subsided very quickly in intensity as well as in the
number of occurrences; and this again would point to a
stress or stresses that took place not so long ago: earth-
quakes are readjustments of the terrestrial strata, with
accompanying relief from the stress.

What wendy said. :') KRONOS pubbed or repubbed two of his papers (S.K. Vsekhsvyatskii), "The Origin and Evolution of the Comets and Other Small Bodies in the Solar System" and "The Ring of Comets and Meteorites Encircling Jupiter".

Interesting idea gleeaikin; it seems more likely that bombardments of the Earth come from objects within the Solar System -- but that could easily result from knowing more about such objects. Smaller objects at greater distances are more difficult to detect, and almost all of those detected so far are in orbit around the Sun.

Rogue Planet Find Makes Astronomers Ponder Theory
by Maggie Fox
October 5, 2000
Eighteen rogue planets that seem to have broken all the rules about being born from a central, controlling sun may force a rethink about how planets form, astronomers said on Thursday... "The formation of young, free-floating, planetary-mass objects like these is difficult to explain by our current models of how planets form," Zapatero-Osorio said... They are not linked to one another in an orbit, but do move together as a cluster, she said... Many stars in our own galaxy, the Milky Way, may have formed in a similar manner to the Orion stars, she said. So there could be similar, hard-to-see planets floating around free near the Solar System.

first one an earlier topic about this, the rest just related sidebars:




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