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3 pages of results. 51. The After-Effects of Newton's Comet of 1680 AD [Journals] [SIS Review]
... we have seen already, they are often observed to split and sometimes to disintegrate. We shall be led to propose that, over and above the sporadic impacts already discussed, there may have been brief periods, within historic times, of greatly increased .. . bombardment. ' They postulated that Encke's Comet, the asteroid Hephaistos and the Taurid meteorite stream were all fragments of a once much larger comet, and state [28] that the wobble' of the orbital plane of Encke ensures close passages of Encke with the Earth at intervals of 3,500 years. These fragments have very different orbits to those we have been discussing. Further constituents of their disrupted comet are ...
52. The Moon In Upheaval [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... who insisted that Velikovsky was no more than an erudite charlatan. Astronomers, indeed, scientists, generally like to think of themselves as tolerant judges and very adaptable to fresh discoveries. The evidence in this instance is, however, mostly the other way. One may, therefore, expect that in some circles the data now emerging from the Taurid meteor stream will be ignored in the hope that something reassuring will turn up...this is a time-honoured scholarly ploy for the handling of discordant new facts. (130) (Emphasis added.) Why doesn't the evidence support the eons-long history of impacts if, as Clube and Napier state: "The Moon... ...
53. The Erratic Descent of Man [Books]
... . A more intense period of impact activity and atmospheric dusting, perhaps linked, as in the Clube/Napier hypothesis, to the disintegration of a giant comet, could be envisaged as causing an Ice Age, but as yet there is little direct evidence for this. Clube and Napier believe that Comet Encke, the asteroid Olijato and the Taurid meteors are the remnants of a giant comet (see chapter 1), and extrapolations backwards from present orbits indicate that the break-up may have occurred about 9,500 years ago [78]. This, however, is after the end of the Würm, the most recent Ice Age. Nevertheless, it remains a possibility that the ...
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