Randall Carlson

Outside the zone of Neptune, there is a layer of billions of comets.

Outside of that, it grades into a sphere of comets.

So the disk of comets is called the Kuiper disk.

The sphere is called the Oort cloud.

And I think that what happens on a regular basis, there is something that perturbs

the, shall we say, the quasi-stability of these cometary reservoirs.

And again, we could go into it.

Each one of these things could be worthy of a 15 or 20 minute discussion to break it down with graphics and all that to show you.

But the idea is, if you have something that perturbs these reservoirs of comets, it could send a cascading swarm of comets falling towards the sun.

And at each interval of the planets going from Neptune to Uranus to Saturn to Jupiter, it just so happens that the size, the mass of the planets and the distance of the planets happens to be optimum for

for what you would need if you were going to transfer comets from the disk to the inner solar system where they could potentially become earth crossing.

I think that we have to look at something like what you said, possibly a third body that's on a highly elongated orbit, very long-term orbit, maybe 25, 26,000 years that disturbs the quasi stability of this cometary reservoir.

and causes essentially a swarm of comets to come cascading in towards the Sun.

Those comets then undergo a hierarchy of disintegration events, littering the inner solar system with the byproducts of their disintegration.

Some of those, like the torrid stream, have littered Earth's orbital path around the Sun.

It's very probable that the torrid stream encounters between the Earth and meteors, large meteors or asteroidal

type debris in the torrid stream has been responsible for some of the past catastrophes, even including the Younger Dryas.

So extrapolating from what you said, I think that's what we need to do is we need to be looking for some larger framework, some mechanism that perturbs these reservoirs, these

billions of comets can send, oh, really all it would take is a few dozen because a comet, a large comet coming in with a 20 or 30 mile diameter could break up and produce a million objects the size of the Tunguska object that blew up over Siberia in 1908.

Are you familiar with that at all, or you've heard of it?