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A fact from Taurids appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 7 November 2005. The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the Taurid meteor shower, which peaks every 3000 years, may have been responsible for the Star of Bethlehem?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2005/November.

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Taurids Data Box

I'm not any expert about this, and I came to look for information rather than provide it; but the dates given in that box don't appear consistent with other websites (eg. http://earthsky.org/?p=50). May be worth a review from someone who knows which is right. "Occurs during Southern: Sep 10 – Nov 20 Northern: Oct 20 – Dec 10 Date of peak Southern: Oct 10 Northern: Nov 12" 88.96.159.86 (talk) 12:06, 31 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Star Bethlehem

This article seems to be full of a lot of crap. Stonehenge, Swastikas, a Bronze Age Armageddon and the Star Bethlehem!!?? 68.196.122.36 (talk) 01:44, 29 October 2008 (UTC)K[reply]

Other climatic events provocated by the Taurids

10900 BC North America - Clovis Impact, responsable for the beginning of magaufa's extinction, most likely took place during October when the vegetation is starting to die; 6200-5900 BC - 8.2 kiloyear event; 3150-2850 BC - Piora Oscillation event —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bigshotnews (talk • contribs) 11:20, 10 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Do you have a reliable reference for this speculation? I also do not like the unreferenced comment in the article about the Bronze Age collapse that uses weasel words such as "One theory (by whom/when?), may have, perhaps evidenced". -- Kheider (talk) 19:40, 11 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

@Kheider: Replying to a comment from nine years ago, this might just be a new PB! I'm not too sure about the last two, but the first thing that Bigshotnews was talking about was the Younger Dryas impact hypothesis. There's a paragraph about the connection in the YDIH article (that I added a couple of months ago) which gives an overview and has a few references:

In 2010, astronomer William Napier presented evidence that fragments of a comet—initially 50 to 100 kilometers in diameter—could have been responsible for such an impact, and that the Taurid complex is formed of the remaining debris. Napier refined this model and published further research in 2019.^[1]^[2]^[3]

References

^ Napier WM (23 June 2010). "Palaeolithic extinctions and the Taurid Complex" (PDF). Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 405 (3): 1901–1906. arXiv:1003.0744. Bibcode:2010MNRAS.405.1901N. doi:10.1111/J.1365-2966.2010.16579.X. ISSN 0035-8711. Wikidata Q56883287.
^ Napier WM (28 June 2019). "The hazard from fragmenting comets". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 488 (2): 1822–1827. arXiv:2004.01870. Bibcode:2019MNRAS.488.1822N. doi:10.1093/MNRAS/STZ1769. ISSN 0035-8711. Wikidata Q106920086.
^ Gough E (2020-04-13). "When Comets Break Up, the Fragments Can Be Devastating If They Hit the Earth". Universe Today. Archived from the original on 2021-03-14. Retrieved 2021-06-29.

Hope you haven't been holding your breath for this! Glad to see you're still active here. Aluxosm (talk) 11:24, 24 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Orphaned references in Taurids

I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of Taurids's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.

Reference named "moore_rees2011":

From Perseids: Moore, Patrick; Rees, Robin (2011), Patrick Moore's Data Book of Astronomy (2nd ed.), Cambridge University Press, p. 275, ISBN 0521899354
From Orionids: Moore, Patrick; Rees, Robin (2011), Patrick Moore's Data Book of Astronomy (2nd ed.), Cambridge University Press, p. 275, ISBN 0-521-89935-4.
From Leonids: Moore, Patrick; Rees, Robin (2011), Patrick Moore's Data Book of Astronomy (2nd ed.), Cambridge University Press, p. 275, ISBN 0-521-89935-4
From Lyrids: Moore, Patrick; Rees, Robin (2011), Patrick Moore's Data Book of Astronomy (2nd ed.), Cambridge University Press, p. 275, ISBN 0521899354.
From Geminids: Moore, Patrick; Rees, Robin (2011), Patrick Moore's Data Book of Astronomy (2nd ed.), Cambridge University Press, p. 275, ISBN 0-521-89935-4.

I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT ⚡ 15:21, 12 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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[1] Napier WM (23 June 2010). "Palaeolithic extinctions and the Taurid Complex" (PDF). Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 405 (3): 1901–1906. arXiv:1003.0744. Bibcode:2010MNRAS.405.1901N. doi:10.1111/J.1365-2966.2010.16579.X. ISSN 0035-8711. Wikidata Q56883287.

[2] Napier WM (28 June 2019). "The hazard from fragmenting comets". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 488 (2): 1822–1827. arXiv:2004.01870. Bibcode:2019MNRAS.488.1822N. doi:10.1093/MNRAS/STZ1769. ISSN 0035-8711. Wikidata Q106920086.

[3] Gough E (2020-04-13). "When Comets Break Up, the Fragments Can Be Devastating If They Hit the Earth". Universe Today. Archived from the original on 2021-03-14. Retrieved 2021-06-29.

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