Tag: oort cloud
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Comets and Coherent Catastrophism: Elenin and Great Comet of 1811
Are there similarities between the Great Comet of 1811 and Elenin? There is a buzz on the net about parallels between the two comets such as flooding, low sun activity, a cold winter and earthquakes.
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hercolubus, nibiru, nemesis, planet x or tyche
A red or brown dwarf–or perhaps–just a gas giant four times the size of Jupiter may lie beyond the heliosphere in the Oort Cloud at the outer reaches of our solar system. The mystery sphere remains a story that refuses to die, this week its name is Tyche! Nancy Atkinson writes dismissively in a Universe Today article, whether the…
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nemesis theory
Nemesis is a theorized red dwarf star–a binary companion to our sun. The case for Nemesis was first proposed in the eighties by Richard A. Muller, a Berkeley physicist, as a theory to help explain periodic extinctions on Earth. The theory grew from an observation by Luis Alvarez, Muller’s mentor, extinction events on Earth were…