>    So how do they get from the dinosaur plantations to the center of the
> universe, or is it the other way round:  When the rulers abandoned this
> planet (the meteor was out-going, you see), what provision was made to
> deliver back to earth in such plenty what we see on one extreme as 
> "bolling balls"  --?  Does iterstellar dust allow the mineralization
> that would make them resistent to collapse?

        On the second point:  Yes, the interstellar dust is sufficiently
dense in some areas of our sun to form objects of at least golf-ball size
so it is not hard to imagine other, larger stars who would have density
pockets of sufficient size to create bowling or even medicine balls.  
        But on your first point, the meteor was not outgoing, it was
actually incoming with a fiberglass shabot that liquidized, lubricating the
passage of the nickle-iron core through the planetary crust.  Since the
incoming meteor was moving at a real fraction of the speed of light, it
emerged on the other side of the planet (about 150 degrees of longitude
away) with sufficient force to cause a crater of big enough that it could
not be determined from which side of the crust (interior or exterior) it
hit.  (The crater was slightly eliptical and about 1500 km across.) 
Furthermore, since both first and last contact were in deep oceans, the
passage threw enough water into the atmosphere that the civilization was
destroyed by a nuclear winter type effect.  In the several dozen megayears
that passed until anyone discovered the meteorŐs passage, there had been
enough weathering that definitive details had been lost.  Modern science
has determined, however, that the planet's techtonic plates are the result
of a massive impact like shattering a glass-covered peach with a .22
bullet.

The rulers are dead and have survived (in vastly, and increasingly mutated
form) in folklore alone.  

Cheers,
Xinavera

(Charles Danforth)