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Re: Cometary Shower NOW?
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- Subject: Re: Cometary Shower NOW?
- From: Gene Roberts <eroberts@ntplx.net>
- Date: Sat, 28 Mar 1998 18:05:05 -0500
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Hello Victor,
It's interesting that this ties in with Ramphino's thought about a 30 million
year extenuation cycle believed to be triggered (or helped along) by the solar
system passing through the galactic lens and perturbing the orbits of cometary
bodies in the Oort cloud into the inner solar system. We passed through the
lens a few million years ago and could be seeing increased activity as a
result. Of course, "cometary shower" should not be thought of as a deluge of
comets, although increased activity always means a increased chance of an
impact. On the plus side, comets are *usually* easier to spot than asteroids.
Did Shoemaker give any explanation for "knowning" the cometary activity for
the past 70 million years?
Gene
Victor D. Noto wrote:
>
> To List:
>
> I just got finished listening to Dr Gene Shoemakers last lecture on VCR
> tape that I got from Robert Dick ELPA Production P.O. Box 79 Rideau Ferry,
> ON Canada KOG 1WO
> http://www.physics.carleton.ca/~rdick/
>
> It was not really that easy to hear ,the audio was homemade kind of, but
> the point Shoemaker was making over and over to me is that we are now in
> the
> middle of a cometary shower of the type that killed off the dinasaurs 65
> million years ago and he was ninety percent sure that all or most all of
> the large impactor craters on Earth were the result of comets not
> asteroids.
> These cometary showers last several million years but the chart Gene showed
> put us right now on a peak of a flux shower twice that of any other period
> in the last 70 million years.
>
> Anyone who listened to this tape got anything different?
>
> Victor
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