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Records from northern Europe throughout the 9th century AD, especially during its central decades, describe political and environmental turmoil accompanied by frequent sightings of comets and other celestial phenomena. Although the evidence is insufficient for definite conclusions to be drawn, it could be taken to indicate that an encounter between the Earth and debris from a disintegrating giant comet, as in the Clube-Napier scenario, may have occurred at this time. If 9th century archaeological, geological and climatic evidence from around the world is also taken into account, it seems hard to deny the possibility that some major catastrophic mechanism may have been at work, whatever its precise nature.
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