The Big Splash (book)

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The Big Splash ...  
Author(s) Louis A. Frank
Patrick Huyghe
Publisher Birch Lane Press
Carol Publishing Group
Publication date October 1990
ISBN 1-55972-033-6
OCLC Number 22109729
Dewey Decimal 550 20
LC Classification QB631 .F68 1990

The Big Splash is a 1990 book written by Louis A. Frank with Patrick Huyghe.[1][2] In the book, 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 these comets created Earth's lakes, rivers and oceans. The cover of the book is noted for looking like a cross between late-era Omni and the Weekly World News, and the book was generally disregarded as pop pseudo-science in serious scientific circles.

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.[3][4]

Patrick Huyghe is a science writer, and presently the editor-in-chief of Anomalist Books.[5]

References

  1. ^ "The Big Splash". Patrick Huyghe. http://web.mac.com/patrickhuyghe/personal/The_Big_Splash.html. Retrieved 2007-10-11. 
  2. ^ The book is subtitled: 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
  3. ^ "Louis A. Frank, Ph.D.". Department of Physics and Astronomy. University of Iowa. http://www-pi.physics.uiowa.edu/~frank/. Retrieved 2007-07-28. 
  4. ^ "Who's Who". Small Comets. University of Iowa. http://smallcomets.physics.uiowa.edu/bios.html. Retrieved 2007-07-28. 
  5. ^ "About Patrick Huyghe". Patrick Huyghe. http://web.mac.com/patrickhuyghe/personal/Bio.html. Retrieved 2007-10-11. 

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