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		<description><![CDATA[ok ok&#8230;.. Ppl wanna no how big Planet X compared to Earth is!!! Well ill show u the False and True sizes&#8230;! False:   ^^^^^^^ FALSE!!! that picture is false!!! Planext X is almost the SAME SIZE as JUPITER!! True: Planet X= basiclly the same size as Jupiter *as u see above* so dont worry that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=2012planetx.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8760269&amp;post=45&amp;subd=2012planetx&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>ok ok&#8230;.. Ppl wanna no how big Planet X compared to Earth is!!! Well ill show u the False and True sizes&#8230;!</p>
<p>False: <img src="http://www.newscientist.com/data/images/archive/2638/26381601.jpg" alt="" /></p>
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<p>^^^^^^^ FALSE!!! that picture is false!!! Planext X is almost the SAME SIZE as JUPITER!!</p>
<p>True:</p>
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<p>Planet X= basiclly the same size as Jupiter *as u see above* so dont worry that it will crash into us!!! it will only destroy man kind&#8230;  -.-</p>
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		<title>~Surviving 2012~</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[A mass extinction is at hand. Life as we know it will be completely extinguished from the face of the earth in 24 hours. The Great Pyramid of Gaza tells the tail of the last catastrophic event and how they were able to survive. How will we survive? We don&#8217;t have one ship. Mayans built [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=2012planetx.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8760269&amp;post=25&amp;subd=2012planetx&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p><span><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:small;"><strong>A mass extinction is at hand. Life as we know it will be completely extinguished from the face of the earth in 24 hours. The Great Pyramid of Gaza tells the tail of the last catastrophic event and how they were able to survive. How will we survive? We don&#8217;t have one ship. Mayans built ten thousand unsinkable ships to survive the last Great Cataclysm. The last Great Cataclysm Noah built the Ark. Everybody in North America will be ruthlessly slaughtered. Hundreds of millions around the world will wish they were dead</strong>.</span></span></p>
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<div><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:x-small;"><strong><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19fMs633Td4">SUPER EARTHQUAKES</a></strong><br />
A 10 ON THE RICHTER SCALE IS LIKE EARTH BEING HIT WITH A 2 KILOMETER WIDE METEOR</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size:x-small;"><strong><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHKOT4K7hO4&amp;feature=related">HURRICANES</a></strong> </span></span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:x-small;">WINDS OF 200 MPH</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:x-small;"><strong><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNL7ASvl4k4">TORNADOS</a></strong></span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;">WINDS IN EXCESS OF 250 MPH</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:x-small;"><strong><a href="http://hypertextbook.com/facts/2000/YongLiLiang.shtml">TEMPERATURES</a></strong> </span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:x-small;">LOW AS 130 DEGREES FAHRENHEIT BELOW ZERO</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:x-small;"><strong><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwu-eNJPuSE">MEGA TSUNAMI</a></strong></span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:x-small;">UNNOTICED ON THE OPEN SEA BY AIR OR BY SHIP AND CAN TRAVEL AT SPEEDS OF 450-600 MPH</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:x-small;"><strong><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Y5ORpMTebI&amp;eurl=http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/MoreLittleWilsons/409605/">LEGEND</a><br />
</strong>AMERICAN INDIANS FLOATED OFF THE TOP OF MT. JEFFERSON WHICH IS 10,497 F / 3 KILOMETERS</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:x-small;"><a href="http://www.satansrapture.com/nostra2012.htm"><strong>NOSTRADAMUS</strong> </a><br />
PREDICTS WATER A HUNDRED FEET OVER THE TALLEST MOUNTAIN IN THE UNITED STATES</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;color:#800080;"><strong>WARNING<br />
</strong></span><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;color:#800080;font-size:x-small;">THE MAGNETIC NORTH AND SOUTH POLES WILL REVERSE<br />
THE INNER CORE OF THE EARTH WILL STOP AND START ROTATING IN REVERSE</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;color:#800080;font-size:x-small;">THE PROTECTIVE SHIELD THAT SHIELDS US FROM THE SUN&#8217;S ULTRAVIOLET AND GAMMA RAYS WILL BE LOST</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;color:#800080;font-size:x-small;">THIS EVENT WILL CAUSE THE ENTIRE EARTH TO BURN</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:x-small;"><strong><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Abg5-gLdEb0">WEST COAST</a></strong></span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:x-small;">PEPPERED WITH VOLCANOES</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:x-small;"><strong>EAST COAST</strong></span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:x-small;">DUSTED WITH NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><strong><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TicG6sDluSE&amp;feature=related">HOLOCAUST</a></strong></span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;">DESTROYED BY FIRE</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:x-small;"><strong><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttLBqB0qDko">ICE AGE</a></strong></span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:x-small;">NORTH AMERICA WILL BE FROZEN</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:x-small;">IN A NEW ICE AGE<br />
SNOW WILL SUFFOCATE ALL FORMS OF LIFE<br />
THE STORM WILL LAST FORTY DAYS AND DUMP 80 FEET OF SNOW ACROSS THE NORTHERN HEMISPHERE<br />
SEA LEVEL WILL DROP 300 TO 400 FEET</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:large;"><strong><em>SURVIVAL IN NORTH AMERICA</em></strong></span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:x-large;"><strong><em>IMPOSSIBLE</em></strong></span> </div>
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<div><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;color:#ff0000;font-size:large;"><strong>DECEMBER 21, 2012</strong></span></div>
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<div id="e8" class="cc06" style="visibility:visible;top:446pt;left:558pt;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;color:#800080;font-size:large;"><strong>END OF TIME</strong></span> </div>
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<div>S<span style="font-size:medium;">URVIVORS WANTED</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:x-small;"><strong><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DU4hpsistDk">MASSAVE SOLAR STORMS</a></strong></span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:x-small;">50% MORE VIOLENT THAN THE LAST</span></div>
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<div><span style="color:#ff0000;font-size:medium;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3NpOypZn1Y">PLANET X</a></span></div>
<div><span style="color:#800080;font-size:medium;">CAN WE SURVIVE?</span></div>
<div><span style="color:#800080;font-size:medium;"> </span></div>
<div><span style="color:#800080;font-size:medium;">Credit To&#8211; <a href="http://surviving2012.net/">http://surviving2012.net/</a></span></div>
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<p align="center"><strong>Is Nibiru the greatest hoax ever portrayed? We present you with the information and you decide.</strong></p>
<p align="center"><strong>In the event all of what you are about to learn is true, a carefully written survivor&#8217;s guide has been written.</strong></p>
<p align="center"><strong>In 2012 a planet called Nibiru/Planet-X may reek real havoc on our planet as it passes through our inner solar system.</strong></p>
<p align="center"><strong>By 2010, Nibiru will be the headline of every major newspaper in the world and global pandemic would soon follow.</strong></p>
<p align="center"><strong> By then it will be almost to late to prepare for the inevitable. Will you be one of them or is your family ready?</strong></p>
<p align="center"><strong>Currently Nibiru is being seen with the naked eye in the skies in the most southern hemisphere.</strong></p>
<p align="center"><strong>By 2010 Nibiru will be able to be seen with the naked eye in the northern hemisphere.</strong></p>
<p align="center"><strong>Since 12-31-1983 Planet-X has been </strong><a href="http://2012planetx.wordpress.com/wp-admin/washington_post_artical_12-31-1983.htm"><strong>tracked by NASA</strong></a><strong>, and continues to this day.</strong></p>
<p align="center"><strong>In the name of Global security, official news of Nibiru has been suppressed.</strong></p>
<p align="center"><strong>However news and pictures of Nibiru are becoming more common.</strong></p>
<p align="center"><strong>Don&#8217;t just  take our word for what you&#8217;ve just read.</strong></p>
<p align="center"><strong>Do your own research and be amazed&#8230;</strong></p>
<p align="center"><strong>Credit To: <a href="http://www.surviving-nibiru.com/">http://www.surviving-nibiru.com/</a></strong></p>
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<p>As we approached the year 2000, there was much anxiety and dread over what would happen. The usual &#8220;the end is near&#8221; crowd warned us, of course, but then we had real world concerns over our computer systems. What chaos might befall us if the machines we had come to rely on suddenly stopped working or, worse, stopped working properly!</p>
<p>Of course, we survived all that with hardly a scratch.</p>
<p>Now, we face the next potential doomsday: the year 2012.</p>
<p>The Mayan clock runs out in December of 2012. There are some interesting astronomical alignments coming in the year 2012. These things, and others, have some warning of impending doom, once again.</p>
<p>Will we be blasted with gamma rays from a distant galaxy? Will the Earth&#8217;s crust shift, moving the continents into different temperature zones and causing massive land changes? Will some doomsday minded people bring about the end through man-made catastrophes? If any of these things happen, how can we survive?</p>
<p>The first thing we can do is to be prepared. Even without the potential end of the world hanging over our heads, we are always at risk of natural disasters, from tornadoes and hurricanes, to earthquakes and flooding, and so on. Disaster preparedness should be a practice of every household! It definitely should not be something you only think of when prophecy comes knocking at your door.</p>
<p><strong>Be ready to stay put!</strong> If a disaster occurs, you may need to be able to survive at home for days or even weeks, depending upon the type and extent of the disaster. You should make sure that you have enough food and water, as well as medicines and other necessities, sufficient to make it through several weeks without outside contact. You might want to keep supplies stored in a mobile plastic container that can be moved easily. In the event of a tornado, you may seek refuge in your basement but, in the event of flooding, you might seek safety on your second floor. So, keep an emergency container where it can be easily found and moved as the disaster may require.</p>
<p>You should also develop an emergency plan for your home with plans for different types of disasters. Have an evacuation plan too. For example, in the event of a tornado, where is the safest part of your house? If you have sufficient notice, will you be safer at home or seeking shelter at a neighbor&#8217;s home or community shelter?</p>
<p><strong>Be ready to be mobile!</strong> Some disasters may require that you abandon your home. Such disasters may include chemical spills, wild fires, earthquakes, etc. You might use the emergency supplies container you store in your home, moving it to your trunk or back seat if leaving your home becomes required. Alternatively, you might want to keep a separate emergency supplies kit in your car. That way, too, if disaster strikes when you&#8217;re not at home, you won&#8217;t need to run home to fetch your supplies.</p>
<p><strong>Be kind to each other!</strong> If you believe that the end of the world will be a man-made event, then simple acts of kindness may be your best safety net. Spread the kindness around. You may not be able to change the world, but you can change your neighborhood. As the kindness moves along, you may just find that you can change the world after all!</p>
<p>If disaster does strike, whether it&#8217;s a &#8220;normal&#8221; disaster or an end-of-the-world-type catastrophe, all the survivors will need to work together to ensure their long-term survival.</p>
<p>If worries about 2012 and the &#8220;end of the world&#8221; motivate you to get a disaster preparedness kit together, that&#8217;s a silver lining on the clouds of worry. But, if the end doesn&#8217;t come, don&#8217;t abandon or neglect your preparedness plans and kits, as many did after the year 2000. No part of the world is immune from disaster of some form occurring, so be prepared and don&#8217;t get caught off-guard!</p>
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		<title>Is It Me, Or Is It Awkward That 2012 is A Leap Year?!?!?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[StarChild Question of the Month for December 1998 ** &#60;&#60;&#60;1998? R U FUCKING SERIOUS?!?!** Question: Is there a Planet X or 10th planet?       Answer: There is no known Planet X or 10th planet in our solar system. Scientists have been looking for about a hundred years. It was believed that such a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=2012planetx.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8760269&amp;post=21&amp;subd=2012planetx&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h2>StarChild Question of the Month for December 1998 ** &lt;&lt;&lt;1998? R U FUCKING SERIOUS?!?!**</h2>
<h2>Question:</h2>
<p>Is there a Planet X or 10th planet?</p>
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<h2>Answer:</h2>
<p>There is no known Planet X or 10th planet in our <a href="http://2012planetx.wordpress.com/docs/StarChild/glossary_level1/glossary_text.html#solar">solar</a> system. Scientists have been looking for about a hundred years. It was believed that such a planet was required to explain the <a href="http://2012planetx.wordpress.com/docs/StarChild/glossary_level1/glossary_text.html#orbit">orbital</a> characteristics of the outer planets Uranus and Neptune. Many searches have been performed and, to date, no evidence of such a planet has emerged. In addition, better information about the <a href="http://2012planetx.wordpress.com/docs/StarChild/glossary_level1/glossary_text.html#mass">masses</a> of outer planets has also now shown that no other planets are necessary to explain the planetary orbits.</p>
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<p>You can get a good historical account of the searches for &#8220;Planet X&#8221; at: <a href="http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/billa/tnp/hypo.html#planetx">http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/billa/tnp/hypo.html#planetx</a></p>
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<p>Read an update on the <a href="http://2012planetx.wordpress.com/wp-admin/question50.html">new objects being found in our solar system</a> which are not being classified as planets!</p>
<p><strong>Yet, there are new planets being discovered!</strong></p>
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<p>However, any new planets you may hear, or have heard, about being discovered are around other stars, not our Sun! You can read all about the search for, and discovery of, planets around other stars at</p>
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<p><a href="http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/billa/tnp/other.html">http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/billa/tnp/other.html</a></p>
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<p>or get a very comprehensive discussion at</p>
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<p><a href="http://www.public.asu.edu/~sciref/exoplnt.htm#preface">http://www.public.asu.edu/~sciref/exoplnt.htm#preface</a></p>
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<p>How will these new planets be named? The planets that are being found around other stars are given scientific catalog names (like SV168) and not the names of people (real or <a href="http://2012planetx.wordpress.com/docs/StarChild/glossary_level1/glossary_text.html#mythology">mythological</a>). All objects, whether moons or <a href="http://2012planetx.wordpress.com/docs/StarChild/glossary_level1/glossary_text.html#asteroid">asteroids</a> or planets, are named by the International Astronomical Union according to strict guidelines. You can read about this at <a href="http://www.iau.org/MINOR_PLANETS_NAMING.245.0.html">http://www.iau.org/MINOR_PLANETS_NAMING.245.0.html</a></p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Apparently, Planet X (a.k.a. Nibiru) was spotted by astronomers in the early 1980&#8242;s in the outermost reaches of the Solar System. It has been tracked by infrared observatories; seen lurking around in the Kuiper Belt and now it is speeding right toward us and will enter the inner Solar System in 2012. So what does [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=2012planetx.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8760269&amp;post=19&amp;subd=2012planetx&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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Apparently, Planet X (a.k.a. Nibiru) was spotted by astronomers in the early 1980&#8242;s in the outermost reaches of <a rel="external" href="http://www.universetoday.com/guide-to-space/the-solar-system/">the Solar System</a>. It has been tracked by infrared observatories; seen lurking around in the <a rel="external" href="http://www.universetoday.com/guide-to-space/outer-solar-system/kuiper-belt/">Kuiper Belt</a> and now it is speeding right toward us and will enter the <a rel="external" href="http://www.universetoday.com/guide-to-space/the-solar-system/inner-solar-system/">inner Solar System</a> in 2012. So what does this mean to us? Well, the effects of the approach of Planet X on our planet will be biblical, and what&#8217;s more the effects are being felt right now. Millions, even billions of people will die, global warming will increase; earthquakes, drought, famine, wars, social collapse, even killer <a rel="external" href="http://www.universetoday.com/guide-to-space/the-sun/solar-flares/">solar flares</a> will be caused by Nibiru blasting through the core of the Solar System. All of this will happen in 2012, and we must begin preparing for our demise right now…</p>
<p>As investigated in my previous article &#8220;<a href="http://www.universetoday.com/2008/05/19/no-doomsday-in-2012/">No Doomsday in 2012</a>&#8220;, a lot of weight had been placed on the end of an ancient Mayan calendar, the &#8220;Long Count&#8221;. According to this calendar and Mayan myth, <em>something</em> is going to happen on December 21st, 2012. Now the world&#8217;s Planet X supporters seem to have calculated that this hypothetical, deadly planet will arrive from a highly eccentric orbit to wreak gravitational havoc on <a rel="external" href="http://www.universetoday.com/guide-to-space/earth/">Earth</a>, sparking geological, social, economic and environmental damage, killing a high proportion of life… in 2012.</p>
<p><strong>Related 2012 articles:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li><strong><a href="http://www.universetoday.com/2008/10/03/2012-no-geomagnetic-reversal/">2012: No Geomagnetic Reversal</a> </strong>(posted October 3rd 2008)</li>
<li><a href="http://www.universetoday.com/2008/06/21/2012-no-killer-solar-flare/"><strong>2012: No Killer Solar Flare</strong> (posted June 21st 2008)</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.universetoday.com/2008/06/19/2012-planet-x-is-not-nibiru/"><strong>2012: Planet X Is Not Nibiru</strong> (posted June 19th 2008)</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.universetoday.com/2008/05/25/2012-no-planet-x/"><strong>2012: No Planet X</strong> (posted May 25th 2008)</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.universetoday.com/2008/05/19/no-doomsday-in-2012/"><strong>No Doomsday in 2012</strong> (posted May 19th 2008)</a></li>
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<p>I&#8217;m sorry, but the &#8220;facts&#8221; behind the Planet X/Nibiru myth simply do not add up. Don&#8217;t worry, Planet X will <em>not</em> be knocking on our door in 2012 and here&#8217;s why…</p>
<p><strong>Nibiru and Planet X</strong><br />
<a href="http://www.universetoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/neptune.jpg"><img src="http://www.universetoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/neptune-250x246.jpg" alt="The planet Neptune - could its orbital deviations reveal Planet X (NASA)" width="250" height="246" /></a></p>
<p>In 1843, John Couch Adams (a British mathematician and astronomer) studied the orbital perturbations of <a rel="external" href="http://www.universetoday.com/guide-to-space/uranus/">Uranus</a> and deduced that through gravitational interactions, there must be an eighth planet, tugging at the gas giant. This led to the <a rel="external" href="http://www.universetoday.com/guide-to-space/neptune/who-discovered-neptune/">discovery of Neptune</a>, orbiting at a distance of 30AU from <a rel="external" href="http://www.universetoday.com/guide-to-space/the-sun/">the Sun</a>. There have been numerous occasions where this method has been used to deduce the existence of other bodies in the Solar System before they were directly observed.</p>
<p><a rel="external" href="http://www.universetoday.com/guide-to-space/neptune/">Neptune</a> was also experiencing orbital perturbations, and on the discovery of <a rel="external" href="http://www.universetoday.com/guide-to-space/pluto/">Pluto</a> in 1930, it was thought that the aptly named &#8220;Planet X&#8221; had been discovered. Alas, Pluto&#8217;s mass was tiny, and once the orbit of <a rel="external" href="http://www.universetoday.com/guide-to-space/pluto/plutos-moon-charon/">Charon</a> (Pluto&#8217;s moon) was analysed it was found that the mass of the <a rel="external" href="http://www.universetoday.com/guide-to-space/pluto/plutos-moon-charon/">Pluto-Charon</a> system was far too small to affect the <a rel="external" href="http://www.universetoday.com/guide-to-space/neptune/neptunes-orbit/">orbit of Neptune</a>. The hunt for Planet X continued…</p>
<p>After years of speculation and historic research, it was believed that a huge body astronomers were looking for was a huge planet or a small star, possibly a companion to our Sun (making the Solar System a binary system). The name &#8220;Nibiru&#8221; was unearthed by the author Zecharia Sitchin, on researching the possible intervention of extraterrestrials in the early history of mankind. Nibiru is a hypothetical planet as taught in ancient Sumerian culture (the Sumerians existed from around 6,000BC to 3,000BC, predating Babylon, in the current geographic location of Iraq). There is very little archaeological evidence to suggest this mythical planet has anything to do with Planet X. But since this dubious connection, Planet X and Nibiru are now thought by doomsayers to be the same thing, an ancient astronomical body that has returned after a long orbit beyond the Solar System.</p>
<p>OK, so the Nibiru/Planet X connection might be a bit ropey already, but is there any solid evidence for the modern-day Planet X?</p>
<p><strong>Infrared observations = Planet X</strong><br />
<a href="http://www.universetoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/planetxnancy20.jpg"><img src="http://www.universetoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/planetxnancy20-235x250.jpg" alt="A popular image on Planet X websites. Is this Planet X, or is it simply a young galaxy? (NASA - possible source)" width="235" height="250" /></a><br />
There is much emphasis placed on the 1983 &#8220;discovery&#8221; of a mysterious heavenly body by <a href="http://irsa.ipac.caltech.edu/IRASdocs/iras.html">NASA&#8217;s Infrared Astronomical Satellite</a> (IRAS) on the outskirts of the Solar system, some 50 billion miles (540 AU) away. Naturally the world&#8217;s media will have been very excited by such a discovery and began making noises that perhaps this was Planet X (the most popular accessible resources for Planet X advocates is the Washington Post article published on December 31st 1983 titled &#8220;<a href="http://spider.ipac.caltech.edu/staff/tchester/iras/washington_post_mystery_object.html">Mystery Heavenly Body Discovered</a>&#8220;). In actuality, astronomers weren&#8217;t sure what the infrared object was (the clue is in the word &#8220;mystery&#8221;). Initial media reports postulated that it could be a long-period comet, <strong>or</strong> a planet, <strong>or</strong> a far-off young <a rel="external" href="http://www.universetoday.com/guide-to-space/galaxies/">galaxy</a> <strong>or</strong> a <a rel="external" href="http://www.universetoday.com/guide-to-space/stars/protostar/">protostar</a> (i.e. a <a rel="external" href="http://www.universetoday.com/guide-to-space/stars/brown-dwarf/">brown dwarf</a>). As soon as the last possibility is mentioned, suddenly this became the &#8220;discovery&#8221; that Planet X was in fact a brown dwarf orbiting in the outer reaches of our Solar System.</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;<em>So mysterious is the object that astronomers <strong>do not know</strong> if it is a planet, a giant comet, a nearby &#8220;protostar&#8221; that never got hot enough to become a star, a distant galaxy so young that it is still in the process of forming its first <a rel="external" href="http://www.universetoday.com/guide-to-space/stars/">stars</a> or a galaxy so shrouded in dust that none of the light cast by its stars ever gets through</em>.&#8221; – Thomas O&#8217;Toole, Washington Post Staff Writer, December 30th 1983 (from text on the <a href="http://www.planet-x.150m.com/washpost.html">Planet X and Pole Shift</a> website)</p></blockquote>
<p>So where did the Washington Post get its story? The story was published in response to the research printed a paper titled &#8220;<em><a href="http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1984ApJ...278L..63H">Unidentified point sources in the IRAS minisurvey</a></em>&#8221; (by Houck et al, published in <em>Astrophysical Journal Letters</em>, 278:L63, 1984). Dr. Gerry Neugebauer, co-investigator in the IRAS project, was interviewed and strongly stated that what IRAS had seen was not &#8220;incoming mail&#8221; (i.e. the results <em>did not</em> suggest there was an object approaching Earth). On reading this interesting research, I was especially drawn to the paper&#8217;s conclusion:</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;<em>A number of candidate identifications have been considered including <strong>near-solar system, galactic, and extragalactic objects</strong>. Further observations at infrared and other wavelengths may provide additional information in support of one of these conjectures, or perhaps <strong>these objects will require entirely different interpretations</strong></em>.&#8221; – <a href="http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1984ApJ...278L..63H">Houck et al, <em>Astrophysical Journal Letters</em>, 278:L63, 1984</a>.</p></blockquote>
<p>Although these IRAS observations were seeing mysterious objects, at this stage, there was no indication that there was an object (let alone a brown dwarf) powering its way toward us. But the rumours had already begun to flow. When follow-up papers were published in 1985 (<em><a href="http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-bib_query?bibcode=1985ApJ...290L...5H&amp;db_key=AST&amp;high=3ccf23290006822">Unidentified IRAS sources – Ultrahigh-luminosity galaxies</a></em>, Houck <em>et al.</em>, 1985) and 1987 (<em><a href="http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1987ARA%26A..25..187S">The IRAS View of the Extragalactic Sky</a></em>, Soifer <em>et al</em>., 1987), there was little if any media interest in their findings. According to these publications, most of the IRAS observations in the 1984 paper were distant, ultra-luminous young <a rel="external" href="http://www.universetoday.com/guide-to-space/galaxies/">galaxies</a> and one was a filamentary structure known as &#8220;infrared cirrus&#8221; floating in <a rel="external" href="http://www.universetoday.com/guide-to-space/galaxies/intergalactic-space/">intergalactic space</a>. IRAS <em>never</em> observed any astronomical body in the outer reaches of the Solar System.</p>
<p><strong>Orbital perturbations = Planet X</strong><br />
<a href="http://www.universetoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/kuiperbelt.jpg"><img src="http://www.universetoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/kuiperbelt-250x118.jpg" alt="The bodies in the Kuiper Belt (Don Dixon)" width="250" height="118" /></a><br />
In addition to the 1983 &#8220;discovery&#8221; of the Planet X brown dwarf, the <a href="http://yowusa.com/planetx/2007/planetx-2007-08b/1.shtml">1992 Planet X claim</a> goes something like this: &#8220;<em>Unexplained deviations in the orbits of <a rel="external" href="http://www.universetoday.com/guide-to-space/neptune/uranus-and-neptune/">Uranus and Neptune</a> point to a large <a rel="external" href="http://www.universetoday.com/guide-to-space/the-solar-system/other-solar-system/">outer solar system</a> body of 4 to 8 Earth masses, on a highly tilted orbit, beyond 7 billion miles from the sun,</em>&#8221; – text from an un-cited NASA source on the &#8220;<a href="http://yowusa.com/planetx/2007/planetx-2007-08b/1.shtml">Planet X Forecast and 2012 Survival Guide&#8221; video</a>.</p>
<p>Pulling up the discovery of planets using orbital perturbation measurements, Planet X advocates point to a NASA announcement that in 1992, there were indirect measurements of a planet some 7 billion miles from Earth. Alas, I cannot find the original source for this claim. The only huge discovery NASA announced along these lines was the discovery of the first major <a href="http://www.johnstonsarchive.net/astro/tnoslist.html">trans-Neptunian object</a> (TNO) called 1992 QB<sub>1</sub> (full details of the discovery of this &#8220;cubewano-class&#8221; object can be found in the <a href="http://trs-new.jpl.nasa.gov/dspace/bitstream/2014/35343/1/93-0941.pdf">original announcement transcript</a>). It has a diameter of 200km and is confined to the Kuiper Belt, a zone of minor planets (where Pluto lives) and <a rel="external" href="http://www.universetoday.com/guide-to-space/asteroids/">asteroids</a> from 30AU to 55AU, just outside <a rel="external" href="http://www.universetoday.com/guide-to-space/neptune/neptunes-orbit/">Neptune&#8217;s orbit</a>. Some of these bodies (like Pluto) cross the path of Neptune&#8217;s orbit and there therefore designated as a TNO. These TNO&#8217;s pose no threat to the Earth (in as much as they wont be leaving the Kuiper Belt to pay us a visit in 2012).</p>
<p>Since then, any Neptune orbital perturbations have been put down to observational error and have since not been observed… so there doesn&#8217;t appear to be any obvious object any bigger than the largest Kuiper Belt objects out there. Still, to keep an open mind, there could be more large bodies to be discovered (that <a href="http://space.newscientist.com/article/mg19726381.600-the-mystery-of-planet-x.html">might explain</a> why there is such a steep drop-off of Kuiper Belt objects at the &#8220;Kuiper Cliff&#8221;, the jury is out on that idea), but there is no evidence for a massive body approaching from the vicinity of the Kuiper Belt. Even the strange <a href="http://www.universetoday.com/2008/04/16/the-pioneer-anomaly-a-deviation-from-einstein-gravity/">Pioneer anomaly</a> that the Pioneer and Voyager probes are experiencing cannot be attributed to Planet X. This anomaly appears to be a Sun-ward acceleration, if there was a massive planet out there, there should be some gravitational effect beyond what has been predicted by the other known objects in the Solar System.</p>
<p><strong>4-8 Earth masses = a brown dwarf? It <em>must</em> be Planet X.</strong><br />
<a href="http://www.universetoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/brown-dwarf-540x380.jpg"><img src="http://www.universetoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/brown-dwarf-540x380-250x175.jpg" alt="Brown dwarfs are 15-80 times the mass of Jupiter (NASA)" width="250" height="175" /></a><br />
Probably the most glaring inconsistency in the Planet X hypothesis is the Planet X advocates assertion that the 1984 IRAS object and the 1992 body are one of the same thing. As announced on many websites and <a href="http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=174_1188978160">online videos about Planet X</a>, the 1984 IRAS observation saw Planet X at 50 billion miles from Earth. The 1992 NASA &#8220;announcement&#8221; put Planet X at a distance of about 7 billion miles from Earth. Therefore, the logic goes, Planet X had travelled 43 billion miles in the course of only eight years (from 1984 to 1992). After some dubious mathematics, Planet X is therefore expected to reach the core of the Solar System in 2012. (Although many believed it should arrive in 2003… they were obviously wrong about that prediction.)</p>
<p>Well, I think we might be clutching at straws here. For starters, for the 1984 object to be the same as the 1992 object, surely they should be the same mass? If Planet X was a brown dwarf (as we are led to believe in the IRAS observations), how can it possibly weigh in at only 4 to 8 Earth masses eight years later? Brown dwarfs have a <a href="http://www.universetoday.com/2008/04/15/coolest-darkest-brown-dwarf-star-discovered/">mass of around 15-80 <em> </em>masses. As Jupiter is about 318 Earth masses, surely the object hurtling toward us should have a mass of somewhere between 4,770 and 25,440 Earth masses? So I am going to go out on a limb here and say that I reckon the 1984 object and the 1992 object (if either object actually existed that is) are <em><strong>not</strong></em> the same thing. Not by a very long shot.</a><a rel="external" href="http://www.universetoday.com/guide-to-space/jupiter/">Jupiter</a></p>
<p><strong>If there is no evidence supporting Planet X, it <em>must</em> be a conspiracy</strong><br />
If it can be this easy to cast the fundamental &#8220;scientific&#8221; theory behind Planet X into doubt, I see little point in discussing the historical reasons (mass extinctions, volcanic activity, earthquakes etc.) as to why the doomsayers believe Planet X should exist. If there is no renegade planet out there of significant mass, how can Nibiru be a threat to us in 2012?</p>
<p>They will have us believe there is a global conspiracy of international governments hiding the facts from us. NASA is involved in the cover-up, hence the lack of evidence. In my opinion, simply because there is no evidence, doesn&#8217;t mean there is a conspiracy to hide the truth from the public. So why would governments want to hide a &#8220;discovery&#8221; as historic as a doomsday planet approaching the inner Solar System anyway? To avoid mass panic and pursue their own, greedy agendas (obviously).</p>
<p>As it turns out, this is the only strength behind the Planet X myth. When confronted with scientific facts, the Planet X advocates reply with &#8220;…governments are sending out disinformation and covering up the true observations of Nibiru.&#8221; Although I enjoy a good conspiracy theory, I will not support anything in the name of Planet X. If the basic science behind what we are led to believe are the foundation of Planet X existing is wrong, it seems a poor argument to say &#8220;the government did it&#8221;.</p>
<p>Therefore, the story that Planet X will arrive in 2012 is, in my view, total bunkum (but it helps to sell doomsday books and DVDs by scaring people). Nibiru will remain in the realms of Sumerian myth.</p>
<p>Sources: <a href="http://spider.ipac.caltech.edu/staff/tchester/iras/no_tenth_planet_yet.html">No Tenth Planet Yet From IRAS</a>, <a href="http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=174_1188978160">Surviving 2012 and Planet X (Video)</a>, <a href="http://www.adsabs.harvard.edu/">The SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System</a>, <a href="http://space.newscientist.com/home.ns">New Scientist</a>, <a href="http://irsa.ipac.caltech.edu/IRASdocs/iras.html">IRAS</a>, <a href="http://www.planet-x.150m.com/">Planet X and Pole Shift</a></p>
<p><em>Leading image credits: <a href="http://web.mit.edu/kayla/Public/Backgrounds/Space%20-%20Supernova.jpeg">MIT</a> (supernova simulation), <a href="http://www.nasa.gov/centers/jpl/news/erisf-20060914.html">NASA/JPL</a> (extrasolar planet). Effects and editing: myself.</em></p>
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<p><em>CREDIT TO: <a href="http://www.universetoday.com/2008/05/25/2012-no-planet-x/">http://www.universetoday.com/2008/05/25/2012-no-planet-x/</a></em></p>
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		<title>Dear Fellow Planet X 2012 Prophecy Enthusiast</title>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If you&#8217;re interested in knowing the facts about Planet X and 2012 End of Time prophecies&#8230; then <span style="font-weight:bold;">this is going to be the most exciting message you ever read.</span></p>
<p>Here&#8217;s why:</p>
<p>Did you know that <strong>there have been </strong><span style="widows:2;text-transform:none;text-indent:0;border-collapse:separate;font:20px 'times new roman';white-space:normal;orphans:2;letter-spacing:normal;color:#000000;word-spacing:0;"><strong><span style="text-decoration:underline;">over 200 recorded </span><span style="font-style:italic;text-decoration:underline;">&#8220;end of world&#8221;</span><span style="text-decoration:underline;"> predictions</span> in the last 4,800 years</strong> that have come and gone without incident</span><span style="widows:2;text-transform:none;text-indent:0;border-collapse:separate;font:20px 'times new roman';white-space:normal;orphans:2;letter-spacing:normal;color:#000000;word-spacing:0;">? </span><span style="widows:2;text-transform:none;text-indent:0;border-collapse:separate;font:20px 'times new roman';white-space:normal;orphans:2;letter-spacing:normal;color:#000000;word-spacing:0;"><strong> </strong></p>
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<div style="text-align:left;"><span style="widows:2;text-transform:none;text-indent:0;border-collapse:separate;font:20px 'times new roman';white-space:normal;orphans:2;letter-spacing:normal;color:#000000;word-spacing:0;"><span style="color:#cc0000;"><strong><em>Amazing, isn&#8217;t it? </em></strong></span></span><span style="widows:2;text-transform:none;text-indent:0;border-collapse:separate;font:20px 'times new roman';white-space:normal;orphans:2;letter-spacing:normal;color:#000000;word-spacing:0;"><span style="color:#cc0000;"><strong><em>&#8220;Many of them from <span style="text-decoration:underline;">&#8216;serial prophets of doom</span>&#8216; or repeat offenders </em></strong></span></span><span style="widows:2;text-transform:none;text-indent:0;border-collapse:separate;font:20px 'times new roman';white-space:normal;orphans:2;letter-spacing:normal;color:#000000;word-spacing:0;"><span style="color:#cc0000;"><strong><em>who use the fear of God and mass hysteria </em></strong></span></span><span style="widows:2;text-transform:none;text-indent:0;border-collapse:separate;font:20px 'times new roman';white-space:normal;orphans:2;letter-spacing:normal;color:#000000;word-spacing:0;"><span style="color:#cc0000;"><strong><em>to </em></strong></span></span><span style="widows:2;text-transform:none;text-indent:0;border-collapse:separate;font:20px 'times new roman';white-space:normal;orphans:2;letter-spacing:normal;color:#000000;word-spacing:0;"><span style="color:#cc0000;"><strong><em>control and profit from their following. </em></strong></span></span><span style="widows:2;text-transform:none;text-indent:0;border-collapse:separate;font:20px 'times new roman';white-space:normal;orphans:2;letter-spacing:normal;color:#000000;word-spacing:0;text-decoration:underline;"><span style="color:#cc0000;"><strong><em>You&#8217;ll recognize their names!</em></strong></span></span><span style="widows:2;text-transform:none;text-indent:0;border-collapse:separate;font:20px 'times new roman';white-space:normal;orphans:2;letter-spacing:normal;color:#000000;word-spacing:0;"><span style="color:#cc0000;"><strong><em>&#8220;</em></strong></span></span></div>
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<p><span style="widows:2;text-transform:none;text-indent:0;border-collapse:separate;font:20px 'times new roman';white-space:normal;orphans:2;letter-spacing:normal;color:#000000;word-spacing:0;">Did you also know that the arrival of <strong>Planet X has been <span style="text-decoration:underline;">predicted by a dozen or more ancient cultures</span> centuries apart and separated by thousands of miles and vast oceans</strong>?</span><span style="widows:2;text-transform:none;text-indent:0;border-collapse:separate;font:20px 'times new roman';white-space:normal;orphans:2;letter-spacing:normal;color:#000000;word-spacing:0;"><strong> </strong><br />
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<p><span style="widows:2;text-transform:none;text-indent:0;border-collapse:separate;font:20px 'times new roman';white-space:normal;orphans:2;letter-spacing:normal;color:#000000;word-spacing:0;"></p>
<div style="text-align:center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="widows:2;text-transform:none;text-indent:0;border-collapse:separate;font:20px 'times new roman';white-space:normal;orphans:2;letter-spacing:normal;color:#000000;word-spacing:0;"><span style="color:#cc0000;"><strong><em>It&#8217;s true&#8230;<br />
&#8220;Such <span style="text-decoration:underline;">synchronicity across all </span><br style="text-decoration:underline;" /><span style="text-decoration:underline;">these ancient calendars is unprecedented</span><br />
and should be taken seriously.&#8221;<br />
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<p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="widows:2;text-transform:none;text-indent:0;border-collapse:separate;font:20px 'times new roman';white-space:normal;orphans:2;letter-spacing:normal;color:#000000;word-spacing:0;">And, did you know that </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="widows:2;text-transform:none;text-indent:0;border-collapse:separate;font:20px 'times new roman';white-space:normal;orphans:2;letter-spacing:normal;color:#000000;word-spacing:0;"><strong>NASA and military <span style="text-decoration:underline;">insiders are quietly building </span><span style="font-style:italic;text-decoration:underline;">&#8220;the strongest structures known to man&#8221;</span></strong></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="widows:2;text-transform:none;text-indent:0;border-collapse:separate;font:20px 'times new roman';white-space:normal;orphans:2;letter-spacing:normal;color:#000000;word-spacing:0;"> in one of the safest areas in the world.<strong> </strong></span></p>
<div style="text-align:center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="widows:2;text-transform:none;text-indent:0;border-collapse:separate;font:20px 'times new roman';white-space:normal;orphans:2;letter-spacing:normal;color:#000000;word-spacing:0;"><span style="color:#cc0000;"><strong><em>Why is the U.S. Government keeping it a secret?<br />
&#8220;<span style="text-decoration:underline;">Those who know ahead of time can prepare without competition for limited resources.</span>&#8220;</em></strong></span></span></div>
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		<title>Google Earth Keeping Planet X A Secret?!?!?!!?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ok guys, if u have google earth&#8230;  get ready to be amazed! ~ Look in the area of Orion&#8217;s Belt using the Google Earth &#8211; Sky feature, and you will find that a couple of areas have been blacked out. LAT -6.01931° LONG -91.5903° Directions: To here &#8211; From here This is supposedly the exact [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=2012planetx.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8760269&amp;post=16&amp;subd=2012planetx&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>ok guys, if u have google earth&#8230;  get ready to be amazed!</p>
<p><strong>~ Look in the area of Orion&#8217;s Belt using the Google Earth &#8211; Sky feature, and you will find that a couple of areas have been blacked out.</strong></p>
<p>LAT -6.01931°<br />
LONG -91.5903°<br />
Directions: To here &#8211; From here</p>
<p>This is <em>supposedly</em> the exact location of Planet X in our galaxy</p>
<p><em><strong>~ Why would it be necessary to hide something like this?</strong></em></p>
<p>the image says  somethign something upadate 2007&#8230;. so the goverment has been blocking this from us FOR 3 YEARS?!?!?  gawfd i swear the goverment is getting stupid-er and stupid-er&#8230;..</p>
<p>If they tell us now, we&#8217;d be ok, but if they were liek *the world&#8217;s gonna end in 30mins&#8230;.* then we r all fucked while the goverment has been planning a safe departure&#8230; blah&#8230;</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[They say it triggers earthquakes. That it rips open volcanoes, and unleashes massive tsunamis. They say it can kick the Earth’s axis over, pushing Africa to the pole and Antarctica to the equator. It may even stop our planet from rotating! Or worse: peel the Earth’s crust off, tear our planet to bits. Or perhaps [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=2012planetx.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8760269&amp;post=14&amp;subd=2012planetx&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>They say it triggers earthquakes. That it rips open volcanoes, and unleashes massive tsunamis. They say it can kick the Earth’s axis over, pushing Africa to the pole and Antarctica to the equator. It may even stop our planet from rotating! Or worse: peel the Earth’s crust off, tear our planet to bits. Or perhaps it simply sweeps our world aside, pushing it into the Sun. That’s the way it goes when suddenly, a HUGE planet zooms by. They say&#8230;.. Psh</p>
<p>The demon planet that is supposed to do the trick goes by many names. Some call it Nibiru, or Marduk. Others named it The Ottawa Object, or Vulcan, or Transpluto. But most people prefer X, just X. `Planet X’, to be precise&#8230;</p>
<p>Planet X is the supposedly eleventh planet of our solar system. It should be as big as many Earths, dwarfing it perhaps even hundreds of times. Some people think X isn’t even a real planet, but a `brown dwarf’: a massive ball of dust and gas that almost succeeded in becoming a star. Planet X has something no other planet has: a huge orbit. Its orbit around the Sun lasts 3,600 years.  Most of the time, it is far off, invisible to the eye. But every 3,600 years, the lost planet returns. Once here, it accelerates, and swings close past the Sun, disrupting everything it encounters.</p>
<p><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family:MS Sans Serif;"><span style="color:#ff9900;">And that’s exactly what Planet X is about to do, they say</span>. Right now, it should be somewhere in the outer regions of the solar system, still invisible to our telescopes. But in the spring of 2003<strong>,*didnt that year pass already? last time i checked we were in 2009!!!*</strong> it will suddenly make its appearance. It will be some event. Within months, Planet X will reach the inner regions of the solar system, disturbing the eclipses of the planets and bombarding us with comets. In May, it will pass Earth, missing it only at a few hairs’ lengths. Or, well: hitting us at full force, perhaps.</span></span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family:MS Sans Serif;">And that will be it. X will fly off again, not to be seen for another 3,600 years. And our planet? Earth will be bruised and battered, and covered in lava. If<em> </em>there’s anything worth calling a planet left at all, that is..</span></span></span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><strong><span style="font-family:MS Sans Serif;color:#ffff00;">Planet X: The Real Story</span></strong></span></span></span></p>
<p>Then again, maybe nothing happens at all in 2003. You see, Planet X is like the perfect myth: the outcome of centuries of ill-omened rumors, laced with snippets of history and cosmology. But: it is still myth. Dream stuff.</p>
<p>It all began with a tablet of clay, uncovered in the Near East many years ago. On the tablet, the Sumerians, the earliest known inhabitants of the Middle East, jotted down something that looked like a solar system. Earth was there, and Saturn, and Jupiter &#8212; as well as all other planets we know of today. But hey, aren’t there supposed to be <strong>nine</strong><em> </em>planets? The clay tablet clearly displays eleven. The tenth one could be the moon, or the newly discovered mini-planet Sedna. But that still leaves you with one planet too many. Weird, isn’t it?</p>
<p><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family:MS Sans Serif;"><span style="color:#ff9900;">Next came the astronomers.</span> From the 1840s until deep into the 1980s, astronomy was haunted by a strange mystery. Something was not right with the orbits of the outer planets. Something really heavy seemed to be tugging at the outer planets Uranus and Neptune. Certain asteroids felt the mysterious pull, too. Must be an enormous planet out there, many astronomers assumed. Or several planets, even. This was how Planet X got its name: the term `X’ comes from the early-twentieth century astronomer Percival Lowell, best known for his study of the `canals’ on Mars</span></span></p>
<p>But eventually, in the 1980s and 1990s, the riddle was solved. There appeared to be no mystery planet involved at all. Neither is there some mysterious force pulling on Neptune’s orbit. The astronomers simply had their orbit calculations wrong. But with better techniques, it all added up. By now, no serious astronomer believes in Planet X anymore. Exit Planet X.</p>
<p>But it was too late already. The Planet X-story had started to lead a life of its own. The breakthrough came in 1976, when a new age-writer by the name of Zecharia Sitchin linked the Planet X-problem of the astronomers up with Sumerian and Babylonian mythology.</p>
<p>Enter Sumerian religion. Like most people, the Sumerians had a lot of pretty neat stories about how the Earth came about. In one of them, it all began with a family quarrel between two gods, Tiamat and Marduk. The two picked a fight, and Marduk won. Pissed off as he was, Marduk  cut Tiamat to bits. From the body parts he created our world. This leg here is the sky; that arm there, that&#8217;ll be the land.</p>
<p>But Sitchin turned the story upside-down. To his opinion, the Sumerians were actually describing an ancient cosmic disaster. A collision between our own planet (Tiamat), and Marduk &#8212; which was, of course, the mystery planet from the clay tablet, a.k.a. Planet X. Adds up nice, right?</p>
<p>Well: it doesn&#8217;t. For one thing, Sitchin&#8217;s translations of the Sumerian texts were terrible &#8211; for example, he got the word for `planet&#8217; wrong. And the words Nibiru and Marduk? Marduk was, besides a god, a nickname for the planet Jupiter. `Nibiru&#8217; simply means `ferry boat&#8217; and was sometimes used to describe&#8230; Jupiter! So in fact, what Sitchin holds for Planet X is simply good old Jupiter.</p>
<p>The astronomical side of the story is no good, either. A planet with a highly elliptic orbit of 3,600 years would after a few rotations fly off, direction deep space &#8211; or just become part of the &#8216;normal&#8217; solar system. It is simply impossible there is a Planet X around. Physics forbids it, just like it forbids apples from falling upwards.</p>
<p>But how about the ten planets on the Sumerian tablet? That&#8217;s decoration, probably. Or it could be Venus, as seen from Earth, and surrounded by stars. There are many, many clay tablets exactly like this one, and they all display funny little drawings in the corners: crosses, moons, stars &#8212; you name it. So there&#8217;s no need to think anything special of the `planets&#8217;. We can be sure of one thing, though: it isn&#8217;t a astronomical map. The Sumerians believed our planet was a flat disc, they didn&#8217;t believe the planets rotated around the Sun, and they had no way of seeing  the outer planets Neptune, Pluto and Quaovar.</p>
<p>Still, Sitchins book was a bestseller, and Planet X gained quite a following on Earth. It still has. Some believe Planet X is an inhabited planet, inhabited by Atlantians, or pyramid-builders, or little green men, or&#8230; well, you know, that sort of thing. Even today, there are people around who claim they are in `telepathic contact’ with the inhabitants of the planet. Sigh&#8230; Some people will simply believe anything!</p>
<p>Aw&#8230; Hold it now. Is that all? Well, there’s this other thing. For in fact, Planet X has been spotted by NASA! In 1983, two astronomers named Neugebauer and Houck made headlines with their announcement that they had discovered a `Jupiter-sized planet’, cruising the galaxy at a distance of two billion kilometers from the Sun.</p>
<p>But: the headlines were wrong. What Neugebauer and Houck really told the press was that they discovered an irregularity in the infrared spectrum. It could be almost anything, they stated, ranging from a new planet to a distant galaxy. The press obviously preferred the planet. But after a while it became clear that what the astronomers really saw was a distant galaxy.</p>
<p>By now, numerous pictures, news clippings and remarkable facts `proving’ the existence of the dreaded Planet X are circulating the Net. But don’t stock on tin cans: they&#8217;re all bogus (for the details, check out the fact sheet at the bottom of this page).</p>
<p>It is at this point many Planet X-believers resort to gossip and childish, X-filish conspiracy theory. According to one particular rumor, the astronomers hold back all information regarding  Nibiru. The Russians would have taken photos of Planet X, including affirmed alien space ships hovering over its surface (see pictures below). Another rumor has it the coming of Planet X is covered up by hushy governments &#8212; isn’t that why so many observatories are closed down for maintenance? Oh, sure! You must have a Sumerian clay tablet for a brain to buy stuff like that!</p>
<p><strong>So: Planet-Ex?</strong></p>
<p>You guessed it. If they ever start telling you about Planet-X, laugh your wits off. Don’t take any precautions – there’s no need. Planet X doesn’t exist. Never has. Never will. Off with you, Nibiru. Shoo.</p>
<p><strong>[ Credit</strong>: For the Sumerian part of the story, Exit Mundi owes a great deal to Wilfred van Soldt, an expert on Mesopotamian astronomy at Leiden University who was willing to look into the case. Also, Exit Mundi consulted Frank Israel, an astronomer at the same university. The insight they offered is invaluable, thanks! ]</p>
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<p>ARE YOU FUCKING SERIOUS?!?!?!?  ummm me= dont believe any of this!!! grrr ppl r soo stupid there probably hard-faithed religion ppl&#8230;. thats all i no!</p>
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