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Goulds Belt, Interstellar Clouds, and the Eocene-Oligocene Helium-3 SpikeDrag from hydrogen in the interstellar cloud which formed Gould's Belt may have sent small meteoroids with embedded helium to the Earth, perhaps explaining part or all of the (sup 3) He spike seen in the sedimentary record at the Eocene-Oligocene transition. Assuming the Solar System passed through part of the cloud, meteoroids in the asteroid belt up to centimeter size may have been dragged to the resonances, where their orbital eccentricities were pumped up into Earth-crossing orbits.
Document ID
20150010740
Acquisition Source
Goddard Space Flight Center
Document Type
Preprint (Draft being sent to journal)
Authors
Rubincam, David Parry
(NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD United States)
Date Acquired
June 15, 2015
Publication Date
May 22, 2015
Publication Information
Publisher: Elsevier
Subject Category
Astrophysics
Solar Physics
Lunar And Planetary Science And Exploration
Report/Patent Number
GSFC-E-DAA-TN23788
Report Number: GSFC-E-DAA-TN23788
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Work of the US Gov. Public Use Permitted.
Keywords
Gould's Belt
Interstellar Clouds
Eocene-Oligocene
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