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Re: Book review - Solar System Evolution
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- Subject: Re: Book review - Solar System Evolution
- From: Gene Roberts <eroberts@ntplx.net>
- Date: Tue, 09 Jun 1998 17:09:16 -0400
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And they thought Immanuel Velikovsky was a crakpot. Just a little off in
his timing, deatails and sequence of events -- well, maybe he was "a
little off."
Gene
Jim Hurley wrote:
>
> Some of the titanic events described:
>
> Mercury loosing its mantle, Venus hit head-on so hard it started
> spinning backwards, Earth hit by a Mars sized object obliquely, causing
> the Moon to be formed, Uranus hit by an earth sized object so that it
> was knocked sideways.
>
> Over and over there was a terrible violence and a dominance of unique,
> stochastic events. The end result is a solar system where every planet
> and satellite is unique.
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