By: John Ackerman

John Ackerman — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 16:40:39 +0000

Lee,
I am famaliar with Louis Franks house-sized comets. In fact, I emailed him more than a year ago to explain my take on the comets, but as you mentioned, he was already under the guns of the ‘establishment’ and obviously didn’t want to provoke them by associating himself with my catastrophism.
There is some stuff in the paper that you forwarded to me (thanks) http://sdrc.lib.uiowa.edu/preslectures/frank99/page2.html
that made me rethink the question. According to the paper, there is a definite seasonal effect that seems to be closely associated with meteor showers. This definitely points to the comets being associated with priori-Mars. I’m not sure why the figure only covers three months. I aslo wonder how accurate his size and mass estimates are. Water evaporated into space by convulsions in priori-Mars would not become compressed into rock-like ice in the weightlessness of space, but would agglomerate loosely, so I would expect these are fluffy bodies, not like the rocky comets discussed in my blog. I think he suggests they are fluffy.
One claim in Frank’s paper doesn’t make sense. He claims that the velocities of the small comets would carry them out to Jupiter’s orbit. If they are associated with meteor showers they cannot have such high velocities.
I have always wondered how so much salt apparently fell to Earth from priori-Mars, as evidenced by the large salt deposits in the Tibeten basins. Accordimg to Frank, the small fluffy bodies he is seeing do not contain much sodium. This makes sense if they comprise water evaporated from priori-Mars. To me this implies that such large quantities of water were blasted directly from priori-Mars to the Earth, causing the deluges during the Bronze and Iron Ages, that it remained in a liquid or solid state (ice) and therefore included the salt that was in the oceans on priori-Mars.

By: Lee Sutterfield

Lee Sutterfield — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 22:01:08 +0000

Dr Louis A. Frank published a book a few years ago “The Big Splash” in which he describes his discovery and 10 year defense of the theory of “Small Comets.” His book and the data available on the web is compelling and it seems growing acceptance is moving the theory into mainstream. Essentially, he discovered that house sized (and bigger) snow/ice bodies are falling into our atmosphere and onto the moon at a very large rate. Though their existence is now accepted their origin is still a big mystery. Naturally, the uniformity based notion of their originating 4 billion+ years ago is assumed. Are you familiar with the Small Comet phenomena? Could the snow/ice bodies have originated from priori-Mars or would they have come from the initial collision at Jupiter’s GRS and the expulsion of priori-Venus? Dr Frank also is showing the small comets as the origin of a large diffuse hydrogen cloud within the orbits of the inner planets.

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