What is Planet X? (Nibiru)

June 9, 2008 – 2:55 am

What is Planet X?

Planet X is a hypothetical, supposedly undiscovered, planet that lies in the outer rim of our solar system. There have been claims that Planet X may also be a brown dwarf star, our Sun’s missing companion. Many believe that Planet X follows a long elliptical orbit and will pass through the core of our solar system in the year 2012. It’s proposed that, during this passing, Planet X will enrage the Sun and produce powerful Solar Flares - leading to catastrophic events on Earth.

Also, due to gravitational disruption during it’s passing through the Kuiper Belt towards the inner solar system, Planet X may bring along new asteroids (comets) that may impact the earth. Some scientists have related this event to the previous exstinction of the dinosaurs.

Throughout the years, Planet X has also been referred to as these names:

Nibiru: First proposed by Zecharia Sitchin. Based on his studies of ancient Sumerian texts, Sitchin claims that the planet Nibiru passes through our inner solar system every 3600 years, causing catastrophic events on Earth. The Sumerians were the first civilization on Earth, located in modern day Iraq. Ancient Sumerian texts accurately recorded all of the planets we know to exist in our solar system, but included an additional planet which they called “Nibiru”. The term “Nibiru” comes from the Sumerian cuneiform stone tablets and writings that are over 6,000 years old. The term Nibiru means “Planet of the crossing”.

Marduk: To the ancient Babylonians, Nibiru was sometimes referred to as Marduk - named after the god Marduk. The existance of Marduk in Babylonian culture stemmed from their ancestors, the Sumerians.

Nemesis (Brown Dwarf): When NASA used the Hubble space telescope to examine other nearby solar systems, they discovered a very interesting pattern. Nearly 90% of all other solar systems had 2 suns. Following this discovery, the idea of Planet X existing as a brown dwarf star began to seem more realistic. A brown dwarf star is a failed star that has cooled down and no longer emits heat or light. Due to the location of Nemesis since modern astronomy, the immense dust clouds and debris existing near the Kuiper belt have, supposedly, prevented proper imaging of this star.

10th Planet: Assuming the solar system as: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto, Planet X (Nibiru)

12th Planet: Assuming the solar system as: Sun, Mercury, Venus, Earth, Luna (Moon), Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto, Planet X (Nibiru)

What started the Planet X phenomenon?

Planet X Timeline

• In 1841, John Couch Adams began investigating the missing part of the equation in the motion of Uranus. In 1845, Urbain Le Verrier started to investigate this as well. Adams presented two different solutions to the problem, assuming that the deviations were caused by the gravitational pull from an unknown planet.
• Sept 30, 1846 - One week after the discovery of Neptune, Urbain Le Verrier declared that there may be still another unknown planet in existance. On October 10, Neptune’s moon Triton was discovered, which enabled an easier way to accurately determine the mass of Neptune, which turned out to be 2% larger than expected from the perturbations upon Uranus.
• In 1877, David Todd attempted to find a trans-Neptunian planet. Using a “graphical method”, from the residuals of Uranus, he concluded the existance of a trans-Neptunian planet.
• In 1879, Camille Flammarion added another clue as to the existence of a planet beyond Neptune: the aphelia of periodic comets tend to cluster around the orbits of major planets. Jupiter has the greatest share of such comets, and Saturn, Uranus and Neptune also have a few each. The aphelia is the point in the orbit of a planet or a comet at which it is farthest from the sun.
• In the early 1900s, astronomer Percival Lowell’s observation of irregularities in the orbits of Uranus and Neptune led him to believe that a distant planet, which he called Planet X, must lie beyond them. The Lowell Observatory’s long search for this planet eventually led to the discovery of Pluto in 1930. However, Pluto’s mass was found to be too small to disturb the other planets’ orbits significantly.
• On December 30, 1983 - A Washington Post article claimed that NASA’s IRAS telescope had discovered Planet X. However, shortly after that article was published, NASA forced the scientists to retract their statements and claimed that IRAS merely discovered a distant galaxy. They claimed that it was not the discovery of Nibiru or Planet X that people were hoping for. This has created quite a conspiracy theory for a possible government cover-up!
• In the early 1990’s, calculations by the United States Naval Observatory have confirmed the orbital perturbation exhibited by Uranus and Neptune could be explained by “a single undiscovered planet”.
• As of February 16, 2007 - The South Pole Telescope (SPT), located at the South Pole - Antarctica, is assumed to be being used to find and observe the planet Nibiru or related brown dwarf star - Nemesis. This is currently a popular conspiracy theory of a government cover-up for the SPT’s purpose and continual denial of the existance of Planet X by NASA.

Does life exist on Planet X?

Anunnaki: Zecharia Sitchin claims that ancient Sumerian texts describe the planet Nibiru being inhabitted with a human-like, highly advanced, alien race called the Anunnaki. The Sumerian texts state “all that we know, we were taught by the Anunnaki”. Anunnaki means “those who from heaven to earth came.” The Sumerians claim to have lived amongst the Anunnaki, whom they referred to as living gods.

Nephilim: In the Bible, the Book of Genesis describes the Anunnaki as “Nephilim”. Chapter 6, verses 3 through 4 - “The Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of men, and they bore children to them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown”.

Also, in the Old Testament, Isaiah states “From a far away land they came, from the end-point of Heaven do the Lord and his weapons of wrath come to destroy the whole Earth. Therefore will I agitate the Heaven and Earth shall be shaken out of its place. When the Lord of Hosts shall be crossing, the day of his burning wrath.”