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Comet trail may have caused last ice age - UPI.com
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| April 4, 2010
| UPI
Posted on 04/03/2010 6:58:36 AM PDT by Paul Pierett
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To: buffyt
To: Paul Pierett
Doesn’t it seem odd that comets can “shed” for thousands of years? Really - they must be making new material...
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04/04/2010 5:52:44 PM PDT
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GOPJ
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To: Paul Pierett
A thousand-year freeze that began in 11,000 B.C. may have been caused by thousands of atomic-force chunks from a disintegrating comet, a British scientist said. The fragments, each hitting with the force of a 1-megaton nuclear bomb, triggered fires that covered whole continents and filled the atmosphere with smoke and soot that blotted out the sun, said Bill Napier, a professor at Cardiff University Astrobiology Center.
A better explanation is:
This was also at the same time of the gigantic zeta-pinch aurora that could have profoundly altered climate as well as have resulted in many of the same features (such as widespread burning and formation of nanodiamonds) as the comet-encounter that left no crater.
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04/04/2010 5:54:28 PM PDT
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aruanan
To: Paul Pierett
11,000 B.C. What a coincidence. That’s the year Helen Thomas started working for UPI.
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04/04/2010 6:17:39 PM PDT
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vamoose
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