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One needs to make allowances for the possible survival of a tiny fraction of an interstellar bolide, almost regardless of its entry velocity. Atmospheric ablation of a meteor is not a homogenous process where you merely compare the specific kinetic energy of the meteor vs. its specific...

A star will centrifugally fragment long before reaching light speed rotation, which would be true even for compact stars like white dwarfs or neutron stars. Here's what happens when a hydrostatic object spins up to the point of centrifugal fragmentation, which I suggest has actually...

This is one more piece of evidence supporting a relatively-recent, 650 Ma, massive, high-angular-momentum debris disk in our highly-unusual solar system: - Anomalously warm moons of Jupiter - Marinoan glaciation on Snowball Earth - Low large-crater count on Ceres, with an internal ocean, in a...