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ABOB's Page or Comets Culture and Currency

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 11/08/2007 - 20:20.
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http://abob.libs.uga.edu/bobk/bobk.html

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This resource, which began in 1994, is offered as a public service. Though other themes are touched upon, the site is primarily focused on understanding the social and physical influence of a once highly-visible large-comet, in a short-period Earth-threatening orbit. This object, according to astronomical evidence, has been progressively breaking up since the Holocene time period began. The result of such debris scattering was to increase the likelihood of Earth's climate being affected by periodic interaction with extraterrestrial material during this most recent time period.

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