Tidal Effects of Passing Planets and Mass Extinctions

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1998-02-20

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9802265v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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Recent observations suggest that many planetary-mass objects may be present in the outer solar system between the Kuiper belt and the Oort cloud. Gravitational perturbations may occasionally bring them into the inner solar system. Their passage near Earth could have generated gigantic tidal waves, large volcanic eruptions, sea regressions, large meteoritic impacts and drastic changes in global climate. They could have caused the major biological mass extinctions in the past 600 My as documented in the geological records.

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