Re: Possible evidence for Stone Age (Clovis) Cosmic Catastrophe?

On Sun, 06 Nov 2005 19:03:22 GMT,
nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

>Apparently on date Sun, 06 Nov 2005 15:51:16 GMT, David Johnson
><trolleyfan_spamfree@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> said:
>
>>nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote in
>>news:8ajrm15v9u5gnmvmbasdnup9p4b10l256m@xxxxxxx:
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>>> On the other hand, if you count sun-grazers, where a blob of the sun
>>> is ejected on an orbit that goes around it and returns to the surface
>>> of the sun on the way back, as a comet, these will frequently have
>>> zero eccentricity because the sun is rotating and it is easier to
>>> launch from the equator in the direction of spin because on earth it
>>> gives you a free launch of a bonus 1000 mph of speed even before you
>>> light the blue touch paper. On the sun, its rotation gives you a
>>> launch velocity of 2 kilometers per second extra than at the poles. So
>>> it is quite normal for stuff to be ejected from the solar equator in
>>> the direction of spin and on the ecliptic.
>>
>>Ummm, since when are _any_ objects* "ejected" (apart from the occasional
>>solar flare - which is composed of high-energy plasma) from the Sun to do
>>an orbit of the solar system and return?
>
>I thought that the hundreds of baby comets SOHO finds, were doing that (not far
>though, only around the sun - technically an orbit of the solar system I
>guess.) Maybe not, now I look closer. They seem to be left over bits of some
>larger body.

Those are the key words "left over bits of some larger body". The
break up of that body has a shot-gun effect.

>Anyway, they're not part of the picture, for me, when considering
>extra terrestrial threats to Earth.
>



Eric Stevens

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