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...ever more dramatic. At the American Geophysical Union's meeting in San Francisco, some respected researchers suggested that a large space rock 10 to 20 km (6 to 12 miles) in diameter slammed into the earth 250 million years ago and set whole continents adrift. The announcement by Michael Rampino of New York University and Verne Oberbeck of NASA-Ames Research Center stunned fellow scientists, though many dismissed it out of hand. Some skepticism seemed warranted. Rampino and Oberbeck rely heavily on their supposition that certain rocks -- known as tillites and long thought to be formed on the earth...
Sniffing a connection, Rampino and a Goddard colleague, Astrophysicist Richard Stothers, among others, proposed an ingenious way that the oscillating journey might trigger bombardments on earth. Whenever the sun passes through the Milky Way plane, they suggested, the swirls of dust it encounters would gravitationally disrupt the Oort cloud, a vast bubble of comets that scientists believe surrounds the solar system at a distance of up to 10 trillion miles from the sun. Like a lazy fruit picker shaking plums from a tree, the dust would send showers of comets falling toward the sun. Some comets would collide with...
...theory made a big splash, explains Michael Rampino, of the Goddard Space Institute of Space Studies in New York. "They touched off a whole new field with some deep-seated implications...
...debris. The 33 million-year period corresponds roughly to the 26-million year cycle of extinction postulated by Raup and Sepkoski and the differences between the two figures can be accounted for by uncertainties in astronomical and geological datings, say the originators of the theory, Richard Smothers and Michael Rampino...
...BLACKS is a play much more difficult to describe than to comprehend visually: especially since John Thornton's set design and Lewis Rampino's costumes manage to establish with ruthless clarity the interrelationship (emotional, political, sexual) of this curious pastiche of characters. The Blacks-the suppressed minority, whether sexual deviants, freethinking criminals, disgruntled lackeys-all consort to overthrow the Establishment, symbolized by the Queen, the Judge and the Governor, perched high aloft the stage on a wooden scaffold, At center stage sits the draped coffin of a white woman, supposedly massacred by the Blacks...
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