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2 unusual facts about Bill Napier


7096 Napier

7096 Napier is a Mars-crossing asteroid named after William (Bill) M. Napier, the Scottish astronomer.

Bill Napier

The result of his collaboration with Victor Clube and others on the role of giant comets in Earth history is known as coherent catastrophism.


Comet Encke

In their 1982 book Cosmic Serpent (page 155) Victor Clube and Bill Napier reproduce an ancient Chinese catalogue of cometary shapes from the Mawangdui Silk Texts, which includes a swastika-shaped comet, and suggest that some of the comet drawings were related to the breakup of the progenitor of Encke and the Taurid meteoroid stream.


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Flatpicking

The chief proponents of the early country and bluegrass styles included Riley Puckett, George Shuffler, Alton Delmore, Johnny Bond, Don Reno and Bill Napier.