#Comet observers' dream or nightmare?
Ignaz Seitz "Disquisitio physico-experimentalis de cometarum causis & effectibus, exhibens insuper seriem chronologicam cometarum insigniorum à Christo nato usque ad cometam hoc anno observatum", 1742
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What do you think about the theory that Earth may have passed through a comet's tail in the Younger Dryas? Seems to me like a better explanation than ancient aliens...