The Big Splash (book)
{{short description|Book by Louis A. Frank}}
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| image = The Big Splash book.jpg
| caption = Hardcover edition
| author = Louis A. Frank
Patrick Huyghe
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| country = United States
| language = English
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| subject = Astronomy
| genre = Non-fiction
| publisher = Birch Lane Press
Carol Publishing Group
| pub_date = October 1990
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| media_type = Print, e-book
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| isbn = 1-55972-033-6
| dewey= 550 20
| congress= QB631 .F68 1990
| oclc= 22109729
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The Big Splash: A Scientific Discovery That Revolutionizes the Way We View the Origin of Life, the Water We Drink, the Death of the Dinosaurs, the Creation of the Oceans, the Nature of the Cosmos, and the Very Future of the Earth Itself is a 1990 book written by Louis A. Frank with Patrick Huyghe.{{cite web | url = http://web.mac.com/patrickhuyghe/personal/The_Big_Splash.html | title = The Big Splash | publisher = Patrick Huyghe | accessdate = 2007-10-11 | url-status = dead | archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20080726205525/http://web.mac.com/patrickhuyghe/personal/The_Big_Splash.html | archivedate = 2008-07-26 }} In the book, Frank claims to have found scientific evidence that every year, millions of small comets (made of ice and water) strike the Earth's atmosphere, and that these comets created Earth's lakes, rivers and oceans.
While many scientists disputed Frank's hypothesis, he continued to argue that there are tests which can be performed which would either rule it out or confirm it.{{Cite web|url=http://smallcomets.physics.uiowa.edu/faq.htmlx|title = Small Comets FAQ (V3.0)}}
Authors
Louis A. Frank was a Carver/James A. Van Allen Professor of Physics at the University of Iowa, and principal investigator for the auroral imaging instruments for NASA's Dynamics Explorer mission.{{cite web | url = http://www-pi.physics.uiowa.edu/~frank/ | title = Louis A. Frank, Ph.D. | work = Department of Physics and Astronomy | publisher = University of Iowa | accessdate = 2007-07-28 }}{{cite web | url = http://smallcomets.physics.uiowa.edu/bios.html | title = Who's Who | work = Small Comets | publisher = University of Iowa | accessdate = 2007-07-28 }}
Patrick Huyghe is a science writer.{{cite web | url = http://web.mac.com/patrickhuyghe/personal/Bio.html | title = About Patrick Huyghe | publisher = Patrick Huyghe | accessdate = 2007-10-11 | url-status = dead | archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20080515212019/http://web.mac.com/patrickhuyghe/personal/Bio.html | archivedate = 2008-05-15 }}
References
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External links
- Book Review: {{cite news | url = https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0CE2D7163AF932A25752C1A966958260 | title = IN SHORT: NONFICTION - THE BIG SPLASH: ... | date = November 11, 1990 | work = The New York Times | accessdate = 2007-07-28 | first=Dennis | last=Overbye}}
- Excerpt: {{cite web | url = http://smallcomets.physics.uiowa.edu/blackspot.html | title = The Original Discovery | work = Small Comets | publisher = University of Iowa | accessdate = 2007-07-28 }}
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