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Subject: Death Star?
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Date: Fri, 9-Mar-84 07:19:00 EST
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Posted: Fri Mar  9 07:19:00 1984
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From:  Robert Elton Maas 

About a week apart I heard two new theories about cretaceous
extinction et al: (1) Sun orbits galaxy out of plane, crossing the
plane twice each orbit, during which time the chance of passing by
another star (which disturbs Oort cloud) is enhanced; (2) Sun has
companion "death star" in long ellyptical orbit, which disturbs Oort
cloud at each perihelion.

Neither theory mentionned the other as an alternative, and both are
explained by exactly the same data, the periodicity of major
extinctions. So as far as I can tell it's a "ratings week" on TV news
and/or a big-lie battle between scientists, with no way to distinguish
the two theories (or should I say two flavors of one theory) that they
are willing to reveal to us J.Q.Public.