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Terrestrial catastrophism: Nemesis or galaxy?

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    MARC DAVIS

  2. Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey, 08540, USA

    PIET HUT

  3. Department of Physics and Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, California, 94720, USA

    RICHARD A. MULLER

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