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  • The theory, known as Cometary Panspermia and pioneered by Chandra Wickramasinghe and the late Sir Fred Hoyle, argues that life was introduced to Earth by comets.

    Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7 2009

  • R. A. Lyttleton, “The Non-Existence of the Oort Cometary Shell,” Astrophysics and Space Science 31 (1974): 385–401; P. M. Steidl, “Comets and Creation,” Creation Research Society Quarterly 23 (March 1987): 153–60.

    Modern Science in the Bible Ben Hobrink 2011

  • R. A. Lyttleton, “The Non-Existence of the Oort Cometary Shell,” Astrophysics and Space Science 31 (1974): 385–401; P. M. Steidl, “Comets and Creation,” Creation Research Society Quarterly 23 (March 1987): 153–60.

    Modern Science in the Bible Ben Hobrink 2011

  • R. A. Lyttleton, “The Non-Existence of the Oort Cometary Shell,” Astrophysics and Space Science 31 (1974): 385–401; P. M. Steidl, “Comets and Creation,” Creation Research Society Quarterly 23 (March 1987): 153–60.

    Modern Science in the Bible Ben Hobrink 2011

  • R. A. Lyttleton, “The Non-Existence of the Oort Cometary Shell,” Astrophysics and Space Science 31 (1974): 385–401; P. M. Steidl, “Comets and Creation,” Creation Research Society Quarterly 23 (March 1987): 153–60.

    Modern Science in the Bible Ben Hobrink 2011

  • A Memorial Day weekend visit to Arlington National Cometary, when "State of the Union" returns.

    CNN Transcript May 24, 2009 2009

  • Cometary material should be primordial, well preserved, but this stuff had been seriously heated at some point.

    International Astronomical Union to the Pluto Haters: Suck It « Whatever 2006

  • Cometary astronomy is now largely indebted to photography, not merely for accurate delineations of shape, but actually for the discovery of most of them.

    History of Astronomy George Forbes 1892

  • 'I have just sent my page across to the column with your book on Cometary

    Two on a Tower Thomas Hardy 1884

  • Cometary photography came to its earliest fruition with it; and cometary spectroscopy made a notable advance by means of it.

    A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition 1874

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