More info:

McCanney's own Plasma Discharge Comet Model site.

Here is an interesting thing: Joe Canepa posted a July 1994 paper wrote discussing a possible change in the predicted trajectory of Shoemaker-Levy, and in it he quotes a couple of paragraphs from one of McCanney's articles in the (defunct?) magazine Kronos. Canepa also provides the response of a reviewer who rejected Canepa's paper for publication in "Electronic Journal of the Astronomical Society of the Atlantic." The reviewer, Drew LePage, wrote that the reference to McCanney did not lend credence to the paper: "[McCanney's work] just sounds like a lot of mumbo jumbo with no basis in any physics that I am aware of." Reference

Now this may just be character assassination for all I know, but if you're really trying to research the fellow and his ideas it's worth scanning Canepa's paper and the comments by LePage. I couldn't find any references to publications by McCanney except those in Kronos, which seems not to publish articles online.

Cheers!

--Don Stahl

[later] Kronos publishing house continues to publish books on catastrophism, and they provide a listing of articles and contributors to the Kronos journal. McCanney's work appeared in 1984-1985, along with some of Velikovsky's stuff on Sumerians. Uh-oh.

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