Nemesis Affair A Story of the Death of Dinosaurs and the Ways of Science

Name: Nemesis Affair A Story of the Death of Dinosaurs and the Ways of Science
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ISBN: 9780393319187

ISBN-10: 0393319180

ISBN-13: 9780393319187

Edition: 2nd 1999 (Revised)

Authors: David M. Raup

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List price: $14.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 11/17/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.20" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction 1999



Death Star


Nemesis: the theory


Connections


A brief chronology of the Nemesis Affair



Catastrophism and Earth History


Curvier versus Lyell


Meteorites


Mavericks and rash proposals


Otto Schindewolf


Digby McLaren


Harold Urey


Bombing Australia



Dinosaurs and the Death of Species


All species are extinct!


Origin of species


The extinction process


Death of the dinosaurs


Other Cretaceous extinctions


Other mass extinctions



Gubbio and the Iridium Anomaly


Why Gubbio?


The 1980 bombshell


Initial reactions



The Three-Meter Gap and Other Evidence


Hell Creek, Montana


Osmium isotopes


Shocked quartz


Microtekties


More iridium-anomaly sites


Soot and the great fire



The Plot Thickens


The killing scenario


The volcanic alternative


Impacts at other mass extinctions?


Two opinion polls



Enter Periodic Extinction


Fischer's cycles


The NASA workshops


Sepkoski's Compendium


Number crunching


The 26-million-year periodicity


The Berlin conference


Sepkoski's Flagstaff presentation


The PNAS manuscript



Nemesis is Born


Astrophysics and paleontology


Nature: April 19, 1984


The Sun's motion in the galaxy


The companion star


Nemesis versus Siva


Cratering periodicity


Planet X



Mounting Controversy


Controversy in science


Periodic extinction under fire


Nemesis under fire


Impact craters


Are Nemesis and dinosaurs independent?



Role of the Press


Saganization


The press: scientific and public


Press reactions to the Nemesis Affair


The tide turns


Toni Hoffman


The press: good or bad influence?



Onward to the Earth's Magnetic Field


Magnetic reversals


A research excursion


Peer review


Lutz rebuts


Retraction


Outcomes



Belief Systems in Science


The scientific method


Guilty until proven innocent


Winning a lottery: science or religion?


The lunatic fringe


Wegener and continental drift


Belief systems and the Nemesis Affair


Epilogue


Update 1999


Index