The Big Splash (book)

The Big Splash (book)

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author = Louis A. Frank Patrick Huyghe
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publisher = Birch Lane Press Carol Publishing Group
pub_date = October 1990
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isbn = ISBN 1-55972-033-6
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"The Big Splash: A Scientific Discovery That Revolutionizes the Way We View the Origin of Life, the Water We Drink, the Death of the Dinosaurs, the Creation of the Oceans, the Nature of the Cosmos, and the Very Future of the Earth Itself" is a 1990 book written by Louis A. Frank with Patrick Huyghe.cite web | url = http://web.mac.com/patrickhuyghe/personal/The_Big_Splash.html | title = The Big Splash | publisher = Patrick Huyghe | accessdate = 2007-10-11 ] cite web | url = http://smallcomets.physics.uiowa.edu/blackspot.html | title = The Original Discovery | work = Small Comets | publisher = University of Iowa | accessdate = 2007-07-28 ] cite web | url = http://www.amazon.com/dp/1559720336/ | title = The Big Splash: ... | publisher = Amazon.com | accessdate = 2007-07-28 ] cite web | url = http://books.google.com/books?id=3M0SAAAACAAJ&dq=The+Big+Splash | title = The Big Splash: ... | publisher = Google Books | accessdate = 2007-07-28 ]

Space physicist Louis A. Frank claims to have found scientific evidence that every year, millions of small comets (made of ice and water) strike the Earth's atmosphere, and that the comets created our lakes, rivers and oceans.

Authors

Louis A. Frank is a Carver/James A. Van Allen Professor of Physics at The University of Iowa, and principal investigator for the auroral imaging instruments for NASA's Dynamics Explorer mission. [cite web | url = http://www-pi.physics.uiowa.edu/~frank/ | title = Louis A. Frank, Ph.D. | work = Department of Physics and Astronomy | publisher = University of Iowa | accessdate = 2007-07-28 ] [cite web | url = http://smallcomets.physics.uiowa.edu/bios.html | title = Who's Who | work = Small Comets | publisher = University of Iowa | accessdate = 2007-07-28 ]

Patrick Huyghe is a science writer, and presently the editor-in-chief of [http://www.anomalistbooks.com/ Anomalist Books] . [cite web | url = http://web.mac.com/patrickhuyghe/personal/Bio.html | title = About Patrick Huyghe | publisher = Patrick Huyghe | accessdate = 2007-10-11 ]

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*Book Review: cite web | url = http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0CE2D7163AF932A25752C1A966958260 | title = IN SHORT: NONFICTION - THE BIG SPLASH: ... | date = November 11, 1990 | publisher = The New York Times | accessdate = 2007-07-28
*Excerpt: cite web | url = http://smallcomets.physics.uiowa.edu/blackspot.html | title = The Original Discovery | work = Small Comets | publisher = University of Iowa | accessdate = 2007-07-28


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