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26,000 years sounds more like the period for Earth's axial precession. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axial_precession .

What you describe doesn't make sense. The Earth's orbit is effectively constant at that timescale, as are the asteroids in the main asteroid belt - otherwise interactions with Earth's would have changed the orbit.

There are conjectures of regular extinction events on 30-60M year intervals, but the data for that isn't strong. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extinction_event#Patterns_in_f...



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