A Search for a Globular Cluster whose Passage through the Galactic Disk
  Could Induce the Formation of the Gould Belt
  The distribution of sites where globular clusters have crossed the Galactic
disk during the last 100 million years has been analyzed using the most recent
kinematic data for 133 globular clusters (GCs). Three GCs (NGC 6341, NGC 7078,
and $\omega$ Cen) whose distances between the positions where they crossed the
Galactic disk and trajectories of the Gould Belt are less than 20\% of their
heliocentric distances at the crossing time (82, 98, and 96 million years ago,
respectively) have been identified. For each of the clusters, this was their
next to last, rather than their last, crossing of the Galactic disk. The
passage of any one of these three GCs through the disk could potentially have
initiated the formation of the Gould Belt.
