Do you believe about the Planet X Nibiru?
By psyche49f
@psyche49f (2502)
Philippines
August 27, 2009 5:03am CST
Or have you ever heard about it? What do you say about it? Do you believe that it's going to devastate the earth in 2012, or is it a hoax? I have kept an open mind to it, but at the same time I don't let it affect my life. If it's a hoax, so be it. But I guess the most that we can do is to pray that it will not happen, I mean the end of the world!
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@xfahctor (14118)
• Lancaster, New Hampshire
19 Feb 11
In short, no, there is no planet Nibiru in our solar system. Nibiru is the name of an imaginary planet many believe is on an oblong 3600 year orbit in our solar system, bringing havoc every time it swings in. This planet as well (and as I said) does not exist. In fact, it cannot exist. Lets look at the mechanics of such a planet. This planet is purported to be about 5 times the size of earth. It is also purported to be on a 3600 year orbit that takes it way out beyond the Kuiper Belt at it's furthest... and near the orbit of Earth at it's closest...all in a mere 3600 years. The problem with this is that a planet that size, traveling at that speed, would be moving so much mass so fast that it would have been reached what is known as "escape velocity" and be ejected from the solar system. In other words, it is moving too fast to be held in orbit by the sun's gravity.
The second problem is that if it is supposed to be here in 2012, it should be around the orbit of Saturn or Jupiter by now. If this were the case, you would be able to see it with the naked eye.
There are no less than a few hundred thousand amateur astronomers around the world, all who know the skies pretty well and know very well what should be where and when. So far, none have looked through a telescope (or through naked eye) and reported a planet out there where there should be no planet. Believe me, if they had, they would all be fighting over who discovered it first and it would be a major and historic astronomy announcement.
Some of the myths about Nibiru also claim some pretty wild things. One of which is that it can somehow only be seen by a telescope at the south pole. I can assure you this is not at all true either. Unless the planet was only a few miles across and floating only a few miles above the ground at the north pole, you could see it ANYWHERE from the southern half of the Earth...likely from any point on the earth north and south if it was far enough out. You can prove this to yourself with a simple experiment. Take a couple of balls. place on on the floor and hold the other one up inb the air....far far above it. Now draw an imaginary line from the ball on the floor to anywhere on the ball in your hand. That imaginary line is your line of site from anywhere on earth. This should tell you where you could and not see it from earth.
Other proponents of the Nibiru myth is that Nibiru is itself a brown dwarf and as such...cannot possibly be seen. This too is not correct for a few reasons. First a "brown dwarf" is not actually brown. A brown dwarf is an object that did not gather enough mass to cause fusion to begin in it's core to become a star. However, it is still quite hot and still quite bright. It would still be bright enough to see with the naked eye. even if it were only reflecting light back from the sun, it would still be visible. They are quite large too...the smallest brown dwarfs are nearly 8 times the size of Jupiter.....you couldn't miss it.
Even if you couldn't see it (and you could,if it existed) the effects it's gravity would have on the rest of the objects in our solar system would be more than noticeable to anyone who even lightly studies the skies.
Most of this myth originated from an author named Zacharia Sitchin. the man wrote a great story but that is all it is...a story. He is wildly wrong on his Sumerian translations and more importantly, he is even more wildly wrong on his astronomy.
The 2012 part is added later by other people who perpetuate the myth. Sitchin never gave an exact date in his books but his calculations actually put it's arrival at around 2004. People began adding 2012 to try and tie it in with that Mayan calender nonsense.....the Mayan calender doesn't predict any disasters by the way (another myth) and it doesn't "end" (another myth)...it rolls over like ours does every year.
@tulipstrader (1467)
• India
13 Sep 09
This universe is full of surprises. so Nibiru could be a fact which no one is aware of. otherwise the ancient would not have recorded these in their writings.
About the 2012, nothing is going to happen to earth. we are going to live and 100s of generations after us also going to live on this mother earth. I am very confident about it.
and no savior is going to come and save any one. the coming of the savior is a big hoax. but coming of nibiru in future may happen as there are confirmations that a big object is moving towards us from the far corner of our solar system.
it is said nibiru takes about 3760 years to finish one revolution around the sun. its a huge planet, bigger than all planets in the solar systems uput together. and as it approaches our earth, it can cause lots of disturbances due to its powerful magnetic field.
@williamjisir (22819)
• China
6 Sep 09
Hello friend. I don't think that the earth will come to an end so soon. I hold a belief that it will last another million years longer, but it is high time we humans took good care of our earth without damaging it any more cauing to shorten its life, which in reverse affects all the livings on the planet. I wish humans to take real actions to take care of mother earth.
@littleowl (7157)
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28 Aug 09
Hi psyche, I haven't heard of the planet XNibiru at all, and am not familiar with what it is meant to do in 2012, but the one thing I am sure of is that the world is not going to end in 2012, I beleive that in that year there is going to be more of a spiritual awakening and that people are going to be more sensitive to the spiritual side of their life...LoLo
@scififan43 (2434)
• United States
1 Sep 09
I have heard about this mestry planet on late night talk raido. I am not sure if it does exist but I did think there is any prof that the sciitiic comity will accept. I think for now it is just spuataion, but who knows it could be real. there could be an undiscouved planet out there in our solor system. but I do not think that there will be an end to the world on 2012, I think that will go by like any other day of the year.
@gmode8 (60)
• United States
31 Aug 09
I have heard about it. I don't know what I believe about it.
However I recently heard that scientist have discovered a 10th planet in the outer regions of our solar system. I cannot post the link here but you can find info about it on the Nasa website.
It could be that the Mayan's knew something that we do not yet know. It could be that there is a planet in our solar system that has life on it... perhaps that is how "we" got here. I am open minded about it too. I guess we will all have to wait and see. I am not going to lose sleep over it though.
@paula27661 (15811)
• Australia
28 Aug 09
Okay...I will admit my ignorance here and confess that I have never heard of Planet X Nibiru. I have taken a quick look online and I will go back and read up about it later because it is fascinating. I doubt very much that the world will end in 2012; as The GypsyDad said, Nibiru has been here before and we’re still here...If the world is due to come to an end I would rather not concern myself with it, after all we cannot stop it if is meant to be...I surely doubt it...I’ve heard this kind of thing many times before.
@TheGypsyDad (391)
• Canada
27 Aug 09
I've heard about this, and if you look up Japan's astrology news, they might of claimed to have seen it already. This planet has been talked about for many decades and so that leads me to beleive that there is a possibility of its existance. If it real, I don't think it will destroy the world since it came here before and the world is still here. It might shake the earth up and the living things on it though.
@tarundrebellian (186)
• India
27 Aug 09
If it existed we could easily see it today and would have detected it's effects on other planets and would have mathematically predicted it long ago.
Not to mention,all the "facts" I have read about Niburu's supposed orbit would violate the laws of physics.A planet orbiting that far away from a brown dwarf and passes that close to the sun would not remain in a stable orbit.It would either be captured by the sun's gravity and orbit it instead or be ejected from the orbit of both objects into interstellar space.
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