SUPPLEMENTARY READING

Below is a compilation of some of the papers and that books that I have found interesting and useful. This is not intended as a comprehensive survey. A lot of the entries are dedicated to more controversial subjects, but I did also include some review articles and a few key papers. Basic topics are also covered in textbooks and also Wikipedia, which knowledgeable enthusiasts keep fairly up-to-date on many science topics.

CHAPTERS 1 AND 2

Bergström, Lars. “Non-Baryonic Dark Matter: Observational Evidence and Detection Methods.” Reports on Progress in Physics 63.5 (2000): 793–841.

Bertone, Gianfranco, Dan Hooper, and Joseph Silk. “Particle Dark Matter: Evidence, Candidates and Constraints.” Physics Reports 405.5-6 (2005): 279–390.

Copi, C J, D N Schramm, and M S Turner. “Big-Bang Nucleosynthesis and the Baryon Density of the Universe.” Science 267.5195 (1995): 192–9.

Freese, Katherine. The Cosmic Cocktail: Three Parts Dark Matter. Princeton University Press, 2014.

Garrett, Katherine, and Gintaras Duda. “Dark Matter: A Primer.” Advances in Astronomy 2011 (2011): 1–22.

Gelmini, Graciela B. TASI 2014 Lectures: The Hunt for Dark Matter. (2015). http://arxiv.org/abs/1502.01320.

Lundmark, Knut. Lund Medd. 1 No125 = VJS 65, p. 275 (1930).

Olive, Keith A. “TASI lectures on dark matter.” arXiv preprint astro-ph/030 1505(2003).

Panek, Richard. The 4 Percent Universe: Dark Matter, Dark Energy, and the Race to Discover the Rest of Reality: Mariner Books, 2011.

Peter, Annika HG. “Dark Matter: A Brief Review.” Frank N. Bash Symposium 2011: New Horizons in Astronomy. Ed. Sarah Salviander, Joel Green, and Andreas Pawlik. University of Texas at Austin, 2012.

Profumo, Stefano. “TASI 2012 Lectures on Astrophysical Probes of Dark Matter.” (2013): 41.

Rubin, V. C., N. Thonnard, and Jr. Ford, W. K. “Rotational Properties of 21 SC Galaxies with a Large Range of Luminosities and Radii, from NGC 4605 /R = 4kpc/ to UGC 2885 /R = 122 Kpc/.” The Astrophysical Journal 238 (1980): 471–487.

Rubin, Vera C., and Jr. Ford, W. Kent. “Rotation of the Andromeda Nebula from a Spectroscopic Survey of Emission Regions.” The Astrophysical Journal 159 (1970): 379–403.

Sahni, Varun. “Dark Matter and Dark Energy.” Physics of the Early Universe. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2005. 141–179.

Strigari, Louis E. “Galactic Searches for Dark Matter.” Physics Reports 531.1 (2013): 1–88.

Trimble, V. “Existence and Nature of Dark Matter in the Universe.” Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics 25 (1987): 425–472.

Zwicky, F. “Die Rotverschiebung von Extragalaktischen Nebeln.” Helvetica Physica Acta 6 (1933): 110–127.

Zwicky, F. “On the Masses of Nebulae and of Clusters of Nebulae.” The Astrophysical Journal 86 (1937): 217.

CHAPTER 3

Humboldt, Alexander von. Kosmos: A General Survey of Physical Phenomena of the Universe, Volume 1. H. Baillière, 1845.

CHAPTER 4

Baumann, Daniel. “TASI Lectures on Inflation.” (2009). http://arxiv.org/abs/0907.5424.

Boggess, N. W. et al. “The COBE Mission—Its Design and Performance Two Years after Launch.” The Astrophysical Journal 397 (1992): 420–429.

Freeman, Ken, and Geoff McNamara. In Search of Dark Matter. Springer, 2006.

Guth, Alan H. The Inflationary Universe: The Quest for a New Theory of Cosmic Origins. Perseus Books, 1997.

Hinshaw, G. et al. “Five-Year Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe Observations: Data Processing, Sky Maps, and Basic Results.” The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series 180.2 (2009): 225–245.

Kamionkowski, Marc, Arthur Kosowsky, and Albert Stebbins. “A Probe of Primordial Gravity Waves and Vorticity.” Physical Review Letters 78 (1997): 2058–2061.

Komatsu, E. et al. “Five-Year Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe Observations: Cosmological Interpretation.” The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series 180.2 (2009): 330–376.

Kowalski, M. et al. “Improved Cosmological Constraints from New, Old, and Combined Supernova Data Sets.” The Astrophysical Journal 686.2 (2008): 749–778.

Leitch, E. M. et al. “Degree Angular Scale Interferometer 3 Year Cosmic Microwave Background Polarization Results.” The Astrophysical Journal 624.1 (2005): 10–20.

Penzias, A. A., and R. W. Wilson. “A Measurement of Excess Antenna Temperature at 4080 Mc/s.” The Astrophysical Journal 142 (1965): 419–421.

Seljak, Uros˘, and Matias Zaldarriaga. “Signature of Gravity Waves in the Polarization of the Microwave Background.” Physical Review Letters 78.11 (1997): 2054–2057.

Weinberg, Steven. The First Three Minutes: A Modern View of the Origin of the Universe. Basic Books, 1993.

CHAPTER 5

Binney, J., and S. Tremaine. Galactic Dynamics. Princeton University Press, 2008.

Davis, M. et al. “The Evolution of Large-Scale Structure in a Universe Dominated by Cold Dark Matter.” The Astrophysical Journal 292 (1985): 371–394.

“Hubble Maps the Cosmic Web of ‘Clumpy’ Dark Matter in 3-D.” (7 January 2007). http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2007/01/image/a/grav/.

Kaehler, R., O. Hahn, and T. Abel. “A Novel Approach to Visualizing Dark Matter Simulations.” IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics 18.12 (2012): 2078–2087.

Loeb, Abraham. How Did the First Stars and Galaxies Form? Princeton University Press, 2010.

Loeb, Abraham, and Steven R. Furlanetto. The First Galaxies in the Universe. Princeton University Press, 2013.

Massey, Richard et al. “Dark Matter Maps Reveal Cosmic Scaffolding.” Nature 445.7125 (2007): 286–90.

Mo, Houjun, Frank van den Bosch, and Simon White. Galaxy Formation and Evolution. Cambridge University Press, 2010.

Papastergis, Emmanouil et al. “A Direct Measurement of the Baryonic Mass Function of Galaxies & Implications for the Galactic Baryon Fraction.” Astrophysical Journal 259.2 (2012): 138.

Springel, Volker et al. “Simulations of the Formation, Evolution and Clustering of Galaxies and Quasars.” Nature 435.7042 (2005): 629–36.

CHAPTER 6

Blitzer, Jonathan. “The Age of Asteroids.” New Yorker. (2014). http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/age-asteroids.

DeMeo, F E, and B Carry. “Solar System Evolution from Compositional Mapping of the Asteroid Belt.” Nature 505 (2014): 629–34.

Kleine, Thorsten et al. “Hf–W Chronology of the Accretion and Early Evolution of Asteroids and Terrestrial Planets.” Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 73.17 (2009): 5150–5188.

Lissauer, Jack J., and Imke de Pater. Fundamental Planetary Science: Physics, Chemistry and Habitability. Cambridge University Press, 2013.

Rubin, Alan E., and Jeffrey N. Grossman. “Meteorite and Meteoroid: New Comprehensive Definitions.” Meteoritics and Planetary Science (2010): 114-122.

CHAPTER 7

Bailey, M. E., and C. R. Stagg. “Cratering Constraints on the Inner Oort Cloud: Steady-State Models.” Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 235.1 (1988): 1–32.

“Europe’s Comet Chaser.” European Space Agency. (2014). http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Rosetta/Europe_s_comet_chaser.

Gladman, B. “The Kuiper Belt and the Solar System’s Comet Disk.” Science 307.5706 (2005): 71–75.

Gladman, B., B. G. Marsden, and C. Vanlaerhoven. “Nomenclature in the Outer Solar System.” The Solar System Beyond Neptune. Ed. M. A. Barucci et al. University of Arizona Press, 2008. 43–57.

Gomes, Rodney. “Planetary Science: Conveyed to the Kuiper Belt.” Nature 426.6965 (2003): 393–5.

Iorio, L. “Perspectives on Effectively Constraining the Location of a Massive Trans-Plutonian Object with the New Horizons Spacecraft: A Sensitivity Analysis.” Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy 116.4 (2013): 357–366.

Morbidelli, A, and H F Levison. “Planetary Science: Kuiper-Belt Interlopers.” Nature 422.6927 (2003): 30–1.

Olson, RJM. “Much Ado about Giotto’s Comet.” Quarterly Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society 35.1 (1994): 145.

Robinson, Howard. The Great Comet of 1680: A Study in the History of Rationalism. Press of the Northfield News, 1916.

Walsh, Colleen. “The Building Blocks of Planets.” Harvard Gazette 12 Sept. 2013.

CHAPTER 8

Francis, Matthew. “The Solar System Boundary and the Week in Review (September 8-14).” Bowler Hat Science. (2013). http://bowlerhatscience.org/2013/09/14/the-solar-system-boundary-and-the-week-in-review-september-8-14/.

McComas, David. “What Is the Edge of the Solar System Like?—NOVA Next | PBS.” (2013). http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/next/space/voyager-ibex-and-the-edge-of-the-solar-system/.

CHAPTER 9

Gehrels, T., ed. Hazards Due to Comets and Asteroids. University of Arizona Press, 1995.

The Earth Institute, “The Growing Urbanization of the World,” Columbia University, New York, 2005.

“IAU Minor Planet Center.” (2015). http://www.minorplanetcenter.net/.

Kring, David A., and Mark Boslough. “Chelyabinsk: Portrait of an Asteroid Airburst.” Physics Today 67.9 (2014): 32–37.

Levison, Harold F et al. “The Mass Disruption of Oort Cloud Comets.” Science 296.5576 (2002): 2212–5.

Marvin, U. B. “Siena, 1794: History’s Most Consequential Meteorite Fall.” Meteoritics 30.5 (1995): 540.

Marvin, Ursula B. “Ernst Florens Friedrich Chladni (1756-1827) and the Origins of Modern Meteorite Research.” Meteoritics & Planetary Science 31.5 (1996): 545–588.

Marvin, Ursula B. “Meteorites in History: An Overview from the Renaissance to the 20th Century.” Geological Society, London, Special Publications 256.1 (2006): 15–71.

Marvin, Ursula B., and Mario L. Cosmo. “Domenico Troili (1766): ‘The True Cause of the Fall of a Stone in Albereto Is a Subterranean Explosion That Hurled the Stone Skyward.’” Meteoritics & Planetary Science 37.12 (2002): 1857–1864.

“Meteorites, Impacts, & Mass Extinction.” (2014). http://www.tulane.edu/~sanelson/Natural_Disasters/impacts.htm.

National Research Council. Defending Planet Earth: Near-Earth Object Surveys and Hazard Mitigation Strategies. National Academies Press, 2010.

Nield, Ted. Incoming! Or, Why We Should Stop Worrying and Learn to Love the Meteorite. Granta Books, 2012.

Shapiro, Irwin I. et al., with National Research Council. “Defending Planet Earth: Near-Earth Object Surveys and Hazard Mitigation Strategies.” 2010: 149.

Tagliaferri, E. et al. “Analysis of the Marshall Islands Fireball of February 1, 1994.” Earth, Moon, and Planets 68.1-3 (1995): 563–572.

CHAPTER 10

“Astronomy: Collision History Written in Rock.” Nature 512.7515 (2014): 350.

Barringer, D. M. “Coon Mountain and Its Crater.” Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Vol. 57. 1905. 861–886.

“Earth Impact Database.” http://www.passc.net/EarthImpactDatabase/.

Grieve, R A F. “Terrestrial Impact Structures.” Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences 15 (1987): 245–270.

Kring, David A. Guidebook to the Geology of Barringer Meteorite Crater, Arizona. Lunar and Planetary Institute, 2007.

Tilghman, B. C. “Coon Butte, Arizona.” Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, v. 57 (1905). 887–914.

CHAPTER 11

Bambach, Richard K. “Phanerozoic Biodiversity Mass Extinctions.” Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences 34.1 (2006): 127–155.

Bambach, Richard K., Andrew H. Knoll, and Steve C. Wang. “Origination, Extinction, and Mass Depletions of Marine Diversity.” Paleobiology 30.4 (2004): 522–542.

Barnosky, Anthony D. Dodging Extinction: Power, Food, Money, and the Future of Life on Earth. University of California Press, 2014.

Barnosky, Anthony D et al. “Has the Earth’s Sixth Mass Extinction Already Arrived?” Nature 471 (2011): 51–57.

Carpenter, Kenneth. Eggs, Nests, and Baby Dinosaurs: A Look at Dinosaur Reproduction. Indiana University Press, 1999.

Eldredge, Niles. Reinventing Darwin: The Great Debate at the High Table of Evolutionary Theory. Wiley, 1995.

Jablonski, David. “Mass Extinctions and Macroevolution.” Paleobiology 31.sp5 (2005): 192–210.

Kelley, S. “The Geochronology of Large Igneous Provinces, Terrestrial Impact Craters, and Their Relationship to Mass Extinctions on Earth.” Journal of the Geological Society 164.5 (2007): 923–936.

Kidwell, Susan M. “Shell Composition Has No Net Impact on Large-Scale Evolutionary Patterns in Mollusks.” Science 307 (2005): 914–917.

Kolbert, Elizabeth. The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History. Henry Holt & Co., 2014.

Kurtén, Björn. Age Groups in Fossil Mammals. Helsinki: Societas scientiarum Fennica, 1953.

Lawton, John H., and Robert May, eds. Extinction Rates. Oxford University Press, 1995.

MacLeod, Norman. The Great Extinctions: What Causes Them and How They Shape Life. Firefly Books, 2013.

“Modern Extinction Estimates.” (2015). http://rainforests.mongabay.com/09x_table.htm.

Newell, Norman D. “Revolutions in the History of Life.” Geological Society of America Special Papers 89. Geological Society of America, 1967. 63–92.

Pimm, S. L. et al. “The Biodiversity of Species and Their Rates of Extinction, Distribution, and Protection.” Science 344 (2014): 1246752.

Rothman, Daniel H et al. “Methanogenic Burst in the End-Permian Carbon Cycle.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 111.15 (2014): 5462–7.

Sanders, Robert. “Has the Earth’s Sixth Mass Extinction Already Arrived?” UC Berkeley News Center 2 Mar. 2011.

Schindel, David E. “Microstratigraphic Sampling and the Limits of Paleontologic Resolution.” Paleobiology 6.4 (1980): 408–426.

Sepkoski, J. J. “Phanerozoic Overview of Mass Extinction.” Patterns and Processes in the History of Life. Ed. D. M. Raup and D. Jablonski. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 1986. 277–295.

Valentine, James W. “How Good Was the Fossil Record? Clues from the California Pleistocene.” Paleobiology 15.2 (1989): 83–94.

Wilson, Edward O. The Future of Life. 1st ed. Vintage Books, 2003.

CHAPTER 12

Alvarez, Walter. T. Rex and the Crater of Doom. Princeton University Press, 2008.

Alvarez, L. W. et al. “Extraterrestrial Cause for the Cretaceous-Tertiary Extinction.” Science 208.4448 (1980): 1095–108.

Caldwell, Brady. “The K-T Event: A Terrestrial or Extraterrestrial Cause for Dinosaur Extinction?” Essay in Palaeontology 5p (2007).

Choi, Charles Q. “Asteroid Impact That Killed the Dinosaurs: New Evidence.” (2013). http://www.livescience.com/26933-chicxulub-cosmic-impact-dinosaurs.html.

Frankel, Charles. The End of the Dinosaurs: Chicxulub Crater and Mass Extinctions. Cambridge University Press, 1999.

Kring, David A. et al. “Impact Lithologies and Their Emplacement in the Chicxulub Impact Crater: Initial Results from the Chicxulub Scientific Drilling Project, Yaxcopoil, Mexico.” Meteoritics & Planetary Science 39.6 (2004): 879–897.

Kring, David A. et al. “The Chicxulub Impact Event and Its Environmental Consequences at the Cretaceous–Tertiary Boundary.” Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 255.1-2 (2007): 4–21.

Moore, J. R., and M. Sharma. “The K-Pg Impactor Was Likely a High Velocity Comet.” 44th Lunar and Planetary Conference; Paper #2431. 2013.

Ravizza, G, and B Peucker-Ehrenbrink. “Chemostratigraphic Evidence of Deccan Volcanism from the Marine Osmium Isotope Record.” Science 302.5649 (2003): 1392–5.

Sanders, Robert. “New Evidence Comet or Asteroid Impact Was Last Straw for Dinosaurs.” UC Berkeley News Center 7 Feb. 2013.

Schulte, Peter et al. “The Chicxulub Asteroid Impact and Mass Extinction at the Cretaceous-Paleogene Boundary.” Science 327.5970 (2010): 1214–8.

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Zahnle, K, and D Grinspoon. “Comet Dust as a Source of Amino Acids at the Cretaceous/Tertiary Boundary.” Nature 348.6297 (1990): 157–60.

CHAPTER 13

American Chemical Society. “New Evidence That Comets Deposited Building Blocks of Life on Primordial Earth.” Science Daily (2012): 27 March. www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/03/120327215607.htm.

“Astronomy: Comets Forge Organic Molecules.” Nature 512.7514 (2014): 234–235.

Durand-Manterola, Hector Javier, and Guadalupe Cordero-Tercero. “Assessments of the Energy, Mass and Size of the Chicxulub Impactor.” (2014). arXiv:1403:6391.

Elvis, Martin. “Astronomy: Cosmic Triangles and Black-Hole Masses.” Nature 515.7528 (2014): 498–499.

Elvis, Martin. “How Many Ore-Bearing Asteroids?” Planetary and Space Science 91 (2014): 20–26.

Elvis, Martin, and Thomas Esty. “How Many Assay Probes to Find One Ore-Bearing Asteroid?” Acta Astronautica 96 (2014): 227–231.

Knoll, Andrew H. Life on a Young Planet: The First Three Billion Years of Evolution on Earth. Princeton University Press, 2003.

Livio, Mario, Neill Reid, and William Sparks, eds. Astrophysics of Life: Proceedings of the Space Telescope Science Institute Symposium, Held in Baltimore, Maryland May 6–9, 2002. Cambridge University Press, 2005.

Melott, Adrian L., and Brian C. Thomas. “Astrophysical Ionizing Radiation and Earth: A Brief Review and Census of Intermittent Intense Sources.” Astrobiology 11.4 (2011): 343–361.

Poladian, Charles. “Comets Or Meteorites Crashing Into A Planet Could Produce Amino Acids, ‘Building Blocks Of Life.’” International Business Times 15 Sept. 2013.

Rothery, David A., Mark A. Sephton, and Iain Gilmour, Eds. An Introduction to Astrobiology. 2nd ed. Cambridge University Press, 2011.

Steigerwald, Bill. “Amino Acids in Meteorites Provide a Clue to How Life Turned Left.” 2012. http://scitechdaily.com/amino-acids-in-meteorites-provide-a-clue-to-how-life-turned-left/.

CHAPTER 14

Alvarez, Walter, and Richard A. Muller. “Evidence from Crater Ages for Periodic Impacts on the Earth.” Nature 308 (1984): 718–720.

Bailer-Jones, C. A. L. “Bayesian Time Series Analysis of Terrestrial Impact Cratering.” Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 416.2 (2011): 1163–1180.

Bailer-Jones, C. A. L. “Evidence for a Variation - but No Periodicity - in the Terrestrial Impact Cratering Rate.” EPSC-DPS Joint Meeting 2011 (2011): 153.

Bailer-Jones, C. A. L. “The Evidence for and against Astronomical Impacts on Climate Change and Mass Extinctions: A Review.” International Journal of Astrobiology 8.3 (2009): 213.

Chang, Heon-Young, and Hong-Kyu Moon. “Time-Series Analysis of Terrestrial Impact Crater Records.” Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan 57.3 (2005): 487–495.

Connor, E. F. “Time Series Analysis of the Fossil Record.” Patterns and Processes in the History of Life. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 1986. 119–147.

Feulner, Georg. “Limits to Biodiversity Cycles from a Unified Model of Mass-Extinction Events.” International Journal of Astrobiology 10.02 (2011): 123–129.

Fox, William T. “Harmonic Analysis of Periodic Extinctions.” Paleobiology 13.3 (1987): 257–271.

Grieve, R. A. F. et al. “Detecting a Periodic Signal in the Terrestrial Cratering Record.” Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (1988): 375–382.

Grieve, R. A. F., and D. A. Kring. “Geologic Record of Destructive Impact Events on Earth.” Comet/Asteroid Impacts and Human Society: An Interdisciplinary Approach. Ed. Peter T. Bobrowsky and Hans Rickman. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2007. 3–24.

Grieve, Richard A. F. “Terrestrial Impact: The Record in the Rocks*.” Meteoritics 26.3 (1991): 175–194.

Grieve, Richard A. F., and Eugene M. Shoemaker. “The Record of Past Impacts on Earth.” Hazards Due to Comets and Asteroids. Ed. T. Gehrels. University of Arizona Press, 1994. 417–462.

Heisler, Julia, and Scott Tremaine. “How Dating Uncertainties Affect the Detection of Periodicity in Extinctions and Craters.” Icarus 77.1 (1989): 213–219.

Heisler, Julia, Scott Tremaine, and Charles Alcock. “The Frequency and Intensity of Comet Showers from the Oort Cloud.” Icarus 70.2 (1987): 269–288.

Jetsu, L., and J. Pelt. “Spurious Periods in the Terrestrial Impact Crater Record.” Astronomy and Astrophysics 353 (2000): 409–418.

Lieberman, Bruce S. “Whilst This Planet Has Gone Cycling On: What Role for Periodic Astronomical Phenomena in Large-Scale Patterns in the History of Life?” Earth and Life: Global Biodiversity, Extinction Intervals and Biogeographic Perturbations Through Time. Springer Netherlands, 2012. 37–50.

Lyytinen, J. et al. “Detection of Real Periodicity in the Terrestrial Impact Crater Record: Quantity and Quality Requirements.” Astronomy and Astrophysics 499.2 (2009): 601–613.

Melott, Adrian L. et al. “A ~60 Myr Periodicity Is Common to Marine-87Sr/86Sr, Fossil Biodiversity, and Large-Scale Sedimentation: What Does the Periodicity Reflect?” Journal of Geology 120 (2012): 217–226.

Melott, Adrian L., and Richard K. Bambach. “A Ubiquitous ~62-Myr Periodic Fluctuation Superimposed on General Trends in Fossil Biodiversity. I. Documentation.” Paleobiology 37.1 (2011): 92–112.

Melott, Adrian L., and Richard K. Bambach. “Analysis of Periodicity of Extinction Using the 2012 Geological Timescale.” Paleobiology 40.2 (2014): 177–196.

Melott, Adrian L., and Richard K. Bambach. “Do Periodicities in Extinction - with Possible Astronomical Connections - Survive a Revision of the Geological Timescale?” The Astrophysical Journal 773.1 (2013): 1–5.

Noma, Elliot, and Arnold L. Glass. “Mass Extinction Pattern: Result of Chance.” Geological Magazine 124.4 (1987): 319–322.

Quinn, James F. “On the Statistical Detection of Cycles in Extinctions in the Marine Fossil Record.” Paleobiology 13.4 (1987): 465–478.

Raup, D. M., and J J Sepkoski. “Mass Extinctions in the Marine Fossil Record.” Science 215.4539 (1982): 1501–3.

Raup, D. M., and J. J. Sepkoski. “Periodicity of Extinctions in the Geologic Past.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 81.3 (1984): 801–805.

Raup, D., and J. Sepkoski. “Periodic Extinction of Families and Genera.” Science 231.4740 (1986): 833–836.

Stigler, S M, and M J Wagner. “A Substantial Bias in Nonparametric Tests for Periodicity in Geophysical Data.” Science 238.4829 (1987): 940–5.

Stothers, Richard B. “Structure and Dating Errors in the Geologic Time Scale and Periodicity in Mass Extinctions.” Geophysical Research Letters 16.2 (1989): 119–122.

Stothers, Richard B. “The Period Dichotomy in Terrestrial Impact Crater Ages.” Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 365.1 (2006): 178–180.

Trefil, J.S., and D.M. Raup. “Numerical Simulations and the Problem of Periodicity in the Cratering Record.” Earth and Planetary Science Letters 82.1-2 (1987): 159–164.

Yabushita, S. “A Statistical Test of Correlations and Periodicities in the Geological Records.” Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy 69.1-2 31–48.

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Yabushita, S. “On the Periodicity Hypothesis of the Ages of Large Impact Craters.” Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 334.2 (2002): 369–373.

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Yabushita, S. “Statistical Tests of a Periodicity Hypothesis for Crater Formation Rate-II.” Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 279.3 (1996): 727–732.

CHAPTER 15

Davis, Marc, Piet Hut, and Richard A. Muller. “Extinction of Species by Periodic Comet Showers.” Nature 308.5961 (1984): 715–717.

Filipovic, M. D. et al. “Mass Extinction and the Structure of the Milky Way.” Serbian Astronomical Journal 87 (2013): 43–52.

Grieve, Richard A. F., and Lauri J. Pesonen. “Terrestrial Impact Craters: Their Spatial and Temporal Distribution and Impacting Bodies.” Earth, Moon and Planets 72.1-3 (1996): 357–376.

Heisler, Julia, Scott Tremaine, and Charles Alcock. “The Frequency and Intensity of Comet Showers from the Oort Cloud.” Icarus 70.2 (1987): 269–288.

Matese, J. “Periodic Modulation of the Oort Cloud Comet Flux by the Adiabatically Changing Galactic Tide.” Icarus 116.2 (1995): 255–268.

Matese, J.J., K. A. Innanen, and M. J. Valtonen. “Variable Oort Cloud Flux due to the Galactic Tide.” Collisional Processes in the Solar System. Ed. Mikhail Marov and Hans Rickman. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2001. 91–102.

Melott, Adrian L., and Richard K. Bambach. “Nemesis Reconsidered.” Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters 407.1 (2010): L99–L102.

Napier, W. M. “Evidence for Cometary Bombardment Episodes.” Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 366.3 (2006): 977–982.

Nurmi, P., M. J. Valtonen, and J. Q. Zheng. “Periodic Variation of Oort Cloud Flux and Cometary Impacts on the Earth and Jupiter.” Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 327.4 (2001): 1367–1376.

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Rampino, Michael, Bruce M. Haggerty, and Thomas C. Pagano. “A Unified Theory of Impact Crises and Mass Extinctions: Quantitative Tests.” Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 822.1 (1997): 403–431.

Rampino, Michael R., and Richard B. Stothers. “Terrestrial Mass Extinctions, Cometary Impacts and the Sun’s Motion Perpendicular to the Galactic Plane.” Nature 308 (1984): 709–712.

Schwartz, Richard D., and Philip B. James. “Periodic Mass Extinctions and the Sun’s Oscillation about the Galactic Plane.” Nature 308.5961 (1984): 712–713.

Shoemaker, Eugene M. “Impact Cratering Through Geologic Time.” Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada 92 (1998): 297–309.

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Stothers, R. B. “Galactic Disc Dark Matter, Terrestrial Impact Cratering and the Law of Large Numbers.” Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 300.4 (1998): 1098–1104.

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Whitmire, Daniel P., and Albert A. Jackson. “Are Periodic Mass Extinctions Driven by a Distant Solar Companion?” Nature 308.5961 (1984): 713–715.

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