The Big Splash (book)

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Author Louis A. Frank
Patrick Huyghe
Publisher Birch Lane Press[1][2]
Carol Publishing Group[3]
Publication date October 1990[3]
ISBN ISBN 1-55972-033-6[2][4]

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.[1][2][3][4]

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.

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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.[5][6]

Patrick Huyghe is a science writer, and presently the editor-in-chief of Anomalist Books.[7]

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b The Big Splash. Patrick Huyghe. Retrieved on 2007-10-11.
  2. ^ a b c The Original Discovery. Small Comets. University of Iowa. Retrieved on 2007-07-28.
  3. ^ a b c The Big Splash: .... Amazon.com. Retrieved on 2007-07-28.
  4. ^ a b The Big Splash: .... Google Books. Retrieved on 2007-07-28.
  5. ^ Louis A. Frank, Ph.D.. Department of Physics and Astronomy. University of Iowa. Retrieved on 2007-07-28.
  6. ^ Who's Who. Small Comets. University of Iowa. Retrieved on 2007-07-28.
  7. ^ About Patrick Huyghe. Patrick Huyghe. Retrieved on 2007-10-11.

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