Catastrophism
Nineteenth-century hypothesis that depicted the many changes evinced by the geological record as having resulted from cataclysms occurring during a relatively brief period of history. Compare uniformitarianism.
When William Whewell, a University of Cambridge scholar, introduced the term in 1832, the prevailing view (called catastrophism) was that the Earth had originated through supernatural means and had been affected by a series of catastrophic events ...
Catastrophism suggested periodic interventions by a Creator; uniformatism saw the world as endlessly shifting by slow changes through geological processes taking place in vast time.
The intersection of the hour circle of zero right ascension of a star catalog with the celestial equator. (see Dynamical Equinox; Equator.) [S92]
Catastrophism ...
fundamentalist Biblical view of history held that the Earth was created 6,000~10,000 years ago (though the figures itself only referred to creation of Adam), and had been shaped since that time by a number of global cataclysms (see catastrophism).
Catastrophism by Philip Burns
FIDAC (Fireball Data Center), including an online fireball report form
Meteor Research Resources Page
The Peekskill Fireball
simulation of a big comet impact by Sandia ...
 See also: Earth, Light, Time, Period, Planet
  
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