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Sunday, December 16, 2007

BROWN DWARF

Does the Nemesis Star really exist?

The Nemesis Star was suposed to be a distant companion of the Sun in a 26 million year orbit. It would perturb comets in the Oort Cloud and send thousands of them into the inner solar system where some would collide with Earth and produce mass extinctions.
It was proposed for non-astronomical reasons to explain the seemingly periodic extinction record every 26 million years.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

hahaha i love that ....
every 26 mil years
that was so good!
rita