7096 Napier is a Mars-crossing asteroid named after William (Bill) M. Napier, the Scottish astronomer.
The result of his collaboration with Victor Clube and others on the role of giant comets in Earth history is known as coherent catastrophism.
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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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