''The Big Splash: A Scientific Discovery That Revolutionizes the Way We View the Origin of Life, the Water We Drink, the Death of the Dinosaurs, the Creation of the Oceans, the Nature of the Cosmos, and the Very Future of the Earth Itself'' is a 1990 book written by
Louis A. Frank with
Patrick Huyghe.
In the book, Frank claims to have found scientific evidence that every year, millions of small comets (made of ice and water) strike the Earth's atmosphere, and that these comets created Earth's lakes, rivers and oceans.
While many scientists disputed Frank's hypothesis, he continued to argue that there are tests which can be performed which would either rule it out or confirm it.
Authors
Louis A. Frank was a Carver/James A. Van Allen Professor of Physics at the
University of Iowa
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, and
principal investigator for the auroral imaging instruments for
NASA
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's
Dynamics Explorer mission.
Patrick Huyghe is a science writer.
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