CATACLYSMS & RENEWALS is a detective story about tracking down the serial killer of the stars, from the clues recorded in ancient astro-mythology. Dr Holms presents his hypothesis that our solar system is really a binary star system. A 4.6 billion year old star-core, the remains of a giant companion star, orbits the Sun. The star-core is only twice the size of Earth, but it is a tenth of the mass of the Sun. It is made of degenerate-matter that is cold, dense, dark and magnetic. The star-core travels in an eccentric elliptical orbit, highly inclined to the orbit of Earth around the Sun. Every four thousand years, the star-core travels 500 AU away to an aphelion in the direction of Sirius, then returns to the Sun and flies-by Earth. A cycle of Ages of the World and death from the sky, is caused by the star-core. The star-core is approaching, making the Sun shine brighter and is driving global warming. When it flies-by the Earth, it will trigger catastrophic tidal forces and a global cataclysm. In January 2016, Caltech astronomers published evidence for a massive object lurking outside our solar system, which is scattering the outer Kuiper Belt objects. Caltech's 'Planet-9' is the star-core.