Study on the Planet X

[stomy]

I thank Hesthelamb for his research who helped the study. I invite you to diffuse this study on the Web.

This page ll update regulary

Source: http://revivall.over-blog.com/pages/...X-7062482.html

Summary



1)Planet X & Study

2)Solar System change

3)Government Alert

4) Prophecies

5) Preparedness

1)Planet X & Study

James M. McCanney, M.S. received a sound classical physics training at St. Mary’s University, receiving a Bachelor of Arts degree with a double major in physics and mathematics in 1970. He was offered full scholarship awards to three major US physics graduate schools to pursue his graduate physics studies. However, he chose instead to postpone graduate studies for a period of three years while he traveled and taught Physics and Mathematics in Spanish in Latin America.

During this time he spent a good deal of time traveling to ruins of ancient cities and archeological sites, studying firsthand many times as the ruins were dug from under dirt that had not been moved for thousands of years. Also during this time he developed the basis for his theoretical work that would, at a later date, deal with the celestial mechanics of N-bodies and plasma physics. It was here also that he learned to appreciate the fact that the ruins and devastation he was witnessing had to have come from celestial events that were so devastating that they left the Earth and these stone cities in ruins, in some cases, leaving no trace of the inhabitants.

With this new understanding of archeology, astronomy of the ancients, physics and the world around him, Mr. McCanney returned to graduate school in 1973 and earned a master’s degree in nuclear and solid-state physics from Tulane University, New Orleans, LA. He was again offered a full fellowship to continue on with Ph.D. studies, but once again he declined and returned to Latin America to study archeology and teach physics, mathematics and computer science in Spanish. He continued his work to explore the mysteries of celestial mechanics and its relationship to the planets, moons and other celestial bodies.



In 1979 he joined the faculty of Cornell University, Ithaca N.Y. as an introductory instructor in physics. It was during this time that he had access to NASA data returning daily from the Voyager I and II spacecraft as they traveled by the planets Jupiter, Saturn and beyond (as well as data from many other space craft). It was here he recognized that his theoretical work regarding the electro-dynamic nature of the solar system and universe had its signatures in the new data that was streaming in from the edges of the solar system. All standard science continued to look at gravitational explanations for the working of the planets, moons and other objects of the solar system, while Mr. McCanney was applying his electro-dynamic scientific theories, and ventured to say for the first time that comets were not dirty snowballs. His papers were published at first in the standard astrophysical journals, but soon he began to receive resistance from the standard astronomical community and within a short period of time, the journals would no longer publish his theoretical work. Mr. McCanney was removed from his teaching position because of his beliefs regarding the electro-dynamic nature of the solar system.

http://jmccsci.com/BIO.htm

Richard A Muller: a Professor in the Department of Physicsat the University of California at Berkeley, and Faculty Senior Scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, where I am also associated with the Institute for Nuclear and Particle Astrophysics.

NEMESIS:
http://www.muller.lbl.gov/pages/lbl-nem.htm

Cornell University Librairy: Giant Nemesis candidate HD 107914 / HIP 60503 for the perforation of Oort cloud
http://search.arxiv.org:8081/paper.j...870&qs=nemesis

Cornell University Librairy: Persistent Evidence of a Jovian Mass Solar Companion in the Oort Cloud
http://search.arxiv.org:8081/paper.j...mesis&byDate=1

Cornell University Librairy: Nemesis Reconsidered
http://search.arxiv.org:8081/paper.j...emesis&byDate=

NIBIRU: Newspaper article - 1975-1983
http://revivall.over-blog.com/articl...101719564.html

NIBIRU: Newspaper article - 1984-1994
http://revivall.over-blog.com/articl...101749270.html

NIBIRU: document from nasa (October 1988)
http://revivall.over-blog.com/articl...-71866470.html

Is Nibiru Approaching?
http://revivall.over-blog.com/articl...-70332554.html

Scientists, telescope hunt massive hidden object in space
http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2011/02/15...ject-in-space/

Does a Massive Planet Lurk in the Outer Solar System?
http://news.discovery.com/space/a-ma...ar-system.html

NASA Baffled by Unexplained Force Acting on Space Probes
http://www.space.com/5037-nasa-baffl...ce-probes.html

Giant Stealth Planet May Explain Rain of Comets from Solar System's Edge
http://www.space.com/5037-nasa-baffl...ce-probes.html

Comet ELENIN C/2010 X1
http://revivall.over-blog.com/pages/...1-5689895.html

Planet X The Avebury crop circle and Nibiru Part I (1-10)
http://revivall.over-blog.com/pages/...u-5765960.html

Mini Nova
The World governement: Study of sources of gravitational waves
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...tational-waves

Cornell University Librairy: The astronomical alignments cause earthquakes
http://lanl.arxiv.org/abs/1104.2036v2

University of Miami: Link between Earthquakes and Tropical Cyclones
http://revivall.over-blog.com/articl...-98745788.html

NASA:Spacequakes Rumble Near Earth
http://science.nasa.gov/science-news...l_spacequakes/

Observatorio Astronomico de Mallorca/NASA: Study of asteroid 2012 DA14
http://revivall.over-blog.com/articl...101757207.html

2) Solar System change

Sun

NOAA: Solar Cycle Progression
http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/SolarCycle/

NOAA: Predicted_Sunspot_Numbers_and_Radio_Flux
http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/ftpdir/weekly/Predict.txt

2009: New Solar Cycle Prediction
http://science.nasa.gov/science-news...oaaprediction/

2012: Solar Tornadoes Dance Across Sun's Surface in NASA Video
http://www.space.com/14620-sun-torna...video-sdo.html

2012: Conspiracy theories claim mysterious planet-sized 'Death Star' has been captured on video as it 'refuels' at the surface of the sun
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencete...rface-sun.html

Mercury

Not of prove

Venus

2012: Space weather explosions detected on Venus
http://blogs.agu.org/geospace/2012/0...cted-on-venus/

2007: ESA to present the latest Venus Express results to the media
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=24066

2004:Climate change on other planets (Venus,...)
http://www.esa.int/esaSC/SEM6JHX5WRD_foryou_0.html

2001: Climate Change on Venus
http://www.boulder.swri.edu/recent/venus.html

Earth

What's erupting? List & map of currently active volcanoes
http://www.volcanodiscovery.com/erupting_volcanoes.html

USGS: Earthquake Facts and Statistics
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquak...ar/eqstats.php

Threat of Earthquake Predicted For E., W. Coast Of US and Mississipi
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...and-Mississipi

Above-Normal Number of Tornadoes Expected in 2012
http://revivall.over-blog.com/articl...-99852320.html

2012: Earth's mantle : new numerical tool describes rock deformation
http://www2.cnrs.fr/en/1957.htm

2012: NASA Mission Takes Stock of Earth's Melting Land Ice
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2012-036

Arctic sea ice News & Analysis
http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/

UCL: Global Drought Monitor
http://drought.mssl.ucl.ac.uk/drough...2Fdrought.html

2012: Ocean Acidification Rate May Be Unprecedented
http://revivall.over-blog.com/articl...100620520.html

WOSCO International News Agency: Strange sounds in sky explained by scientists
http://revivall.over-blog.com/articl...-98747516.html

Moon

2011: Cornell University Librairy: On the anomalous secular increase of the eccentricity of the orbit of the Moon
http://arxiv.org/abs/1102.0212v6

2011: Cornell University Librairy: The population of natural Earth satellites
http://arxiv.org/abs/1112.3781

2002: Measurement of the lunar impact record for the past 3.5 billion years, and implications for the Nemesis theory
http://www.muller.lbl.gov/papers/Lun...ts_Nemesis.pdf

Mars

2012: Amazing dunes reveal climate change on Mars
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencete...nges-Mars.html

2012: ESA's Mars Express radar gives strong evidence for former Mars ocean
http://www.esa.int/esaMI/Mars_Expres...INVX7YG_0.html

2012: Nasa spacecraft captures huge avalanche near Mars's north pole
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencete...orth-pole.html

2008: Avalanches on Mars
http://science.nasa.gov/science-news...mar_avalanche/

2007: Mars Melt Hints at Solar, Not Human, Cause for Warming, Scientist Says
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/n...s-warming.html

2001: Global Warming on Mars
http://science.nasa.gov/science-news...01/ast09feb_1/

Jupiter

2012: Cassini Spies Wave Rattling Jet Stream on Jupiter
http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news...lease20120313/

2011: A low mass for Mars from Jupiter’s early gas-driven migration
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal...ture10201.html

2011: Colossal Storm May Rage on Jupiter-like "Failed Star"
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/n...space-science/

2011: Ripples in Saturn and Jupiter rings 'caused by comet crashes'
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencete...t-crashes.html

2011: Jupiter Scar Likely from Titanic-Sized Asteroid
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases...0126171852.htm

2006: New Storm on Jupiter Hints at Climate Change
http://www.space.com/2071-storm-jupi...te-change.html

Saturn

2011: Ripples in Saturn and Jupiter rings 'caused by comet crashes'
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencete...t-crashes.html

2011: Super Storm on Saturn
http://science.nasa.gov/science-news...y_saturnstorm/

2005: Saturn has bizarre warm pole
http://www.abc.net.au/science/articl...07/1297240.htm

Iapetus

2012: Clues to 'Weird' Saturn Moon Found in Earth's Ice
http://www.space.com/14926-saturn-mo...earth-ice.html

Uranus

2011: Planet Uranus Got Sideways Tilt From Multiple Impacts
http://www.space.com/13231-planet-ur...s-impacts.html

2011: Series of Bumps Sent Uranus Into Its Sideways Spin, New Research Suggests
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases...1006084235.htm

1999:Huge storms hit the planet Uranus
http://science.nasa.gov/science-news.../ast29mar99_1/

Neptune

2011: Clocking Neptune's Spin
http://uanews.org/node/40494

2007: A Warm South Pole? Yes, On Neptune!
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases...0918100600.htm

2007: Suggestive correlations between the brightness of Neptune, solar variability, and Earth's temperature
http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/200...GL028764.shtml

Triton

1998: MIT researcher finds evidence of global warming on Neptune's largest moon
http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/1998/triton.html

Pluto

2011: Pluto's Atmosphere Found Poisonous and Surprisingly High
http://www.space.com/11433-pluto-atm...-monoxide.html

2011: NASA's Hubble Discovers Another Moon Around Pluto
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hu...luto-moon.html

2010: The Mysterious Molasses Markings of Pluto
http://science.nasa.gov/science-news...4apr_molasses/

2010: How the face of Pluto changed in just two years (do you think they can blame it on global warming?)
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencete...#ixzz1pU5mnHPI

2003: Pluto's atmosphere is expanding, researchers sa
http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2003/pluto.html

2002: Pluto is undergoing global warming, researchers find
http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2002/pluto.html


3) Government Alert

2012: The White House Official: Executive Order -- National Defense Resources Preparedness
http://revivall.over-blog.com/articl...101874516.html

2011: NASA: Family/Personal Preparedness
http://www.nasa.gov/centers/hq/emerg...ess/index.html

2011: The White House: Understanding Earthquakes and Their Impacts: Part I
http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2011/...impacts-part-i

2011: The White House: Understanding Earthquakes and Their Impacts: Part II
http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2011/...mpacts-part-ii


4) Prophecies

Hopi Prophecy: Elenin and Planet X
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...n-and-Planet-X

Study on the apocalypse from The Jerusalem Holy Bible
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...lem-Holy-Bible

Synthesis of prophecies
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...-of-Prophecies



5) Preparedness

Anger is not just for the children of God, but like we don't know if we will not remain long without a means of real, every precaution was taken can be good.

How to prepare and survive for difficult time?
http://revivall.over-blog.com/pages/...e-4724507.html

The Health
http://www.google.com/translate?u=ht...&hl=fr&ie=UTF8

The Prayer and Bible (Repentance & Explanation)
http://www.google.com/translate?u=ht...&hl=fr&ie=UTF8


I know the approximate date and the approximate location or Planet X will arrive but I will not reveal. To find out, follow HesTheLamb on Youtube and you repent. Accept Jesus into your life: you ll be save and have eternal life. God loves everyone. Blessings

Matthew 18
3 And he said: “Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.

Matthew 19
29 And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or fields for my sake will receive a hundred times as much and will inherit eternal life.

Matthew 19
14 Jesus said, “Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these.”

Mark 7
27 “First let the children eat all they want,” he told her, “for it is not right to take the children’s bread and toss it to the dogs.”

Mark 10
24 The disciples were amazed at his words. But Jesus said again, “Children, how hard it is to enter the kingdom of God!

Luke 10
21 At that time Jesus, full of joy through the Holy Spirit, said, “I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and learned, and revealed them to little children. Yes, Father, for this is what you were pleased to do.

Luke 11
13 If you then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!”

Acts 2
39 The promise is for you and your children and for all who are far off—for all whom the Lord our God will call.”

1 Corinthiens 4
14 I am writing this not to shame you but to warn you as my dear children.

1 Jean 2
1 My dear children, I write this to you so that you will not sin. But if anybody does sin, we have an advocate with the Father—Jesus Christ, the Righteous One.

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[Ross]

I know the approximate date and the approximate location or Planet X will arrive but I will not reveal. To find out, follow HesTheLamb on Youtube and you repent. Accept Jesus into your life: you ll be save and have eternal life. God loves everyone. Blessings

Hi Stomy...

Is above quote your own words?

Ross

[stomy]

Hi Stomy...

Is above quote your own words?

Ross

Hi Ross,

Yes. I can't speak more now. I ll continue my investigation with the prove of the change

[stomy]

The Planet X Cover-up in the Mainstream Media
http://revivall.over-blog.com/articl...102011160.html

NASA: Proof of study between two stars
http://revivall.over-blog.com/articl...102022928.html

2012: Mercury?s Surprising Core and Landscape Curiosities
http://revivall.over-blog.com/articl...102024363.html

2012: Jupiter's Melting Heart Sheds Light on Mysterious Exoplanet
http://revivall.over-blog.com/articl...102078419.html

2012: Geologic map of Jupiter?s moon Io details an otherworldly volcanic surface
http://revivall.over-blog.com/articl...101976012.html

Mother Shipton's Prophecies and Planet X / Nibiru Research
http://revivall.over-blog.com/articl...102094576.html

[Nazirite]

Excellent bit of research work there Stomy.

Thanks.

[stomy]

Russian News Report NIBIRU Exists
http://revivall.over-blog.com/articl...102211925.html

Australian Survey Buoy Anomalies Offer New Evidence That Planet X is Approaching From the South
http://yowusa.com/planetx/2010/planetx-2010-06a/1.shtml

Mysterious force hinders NASA spacecraft
http://www.alarabiya.net/articles/20...22/119976.html

Massive dark object 'lurking on edge of solar system hurling comets at Earth'
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencete...ets-Earth.html

Study on a companion star of our sun
http://revivall.over-blog.com/articl...102144489.html

2012: Mercury may have had a dynamic past
http://revivall.over-blog.com/articl...102160365.html

2012: The Earth?s crust is now undergoing high rates of destruction
http://revivall.over-blog.com/articl...102151692.html

2012: Saturn's Gravity Warps Icy Moon's Erupting Jets
http://revivall.over-blog.com/articl...102159675.html

[stomy]

Following the publication of my Study on the Planet X, I can not access the site from NASA http://www.nasa.gov/

All other site works except this one.

Conclusion: If my study is annoying, it proves that it's true

[stomy]

Southwest Research Institute: 5th Giant Planet Ousted from Early Solar System?
http://revivall.over-blog.com/articl...102319716.html

Department of Physics: The sun's displacement from the galactic plane
http://revivall.over-blog.com/articl...102391265.html

The majority of comets come to us from the southern hemisphere
http://revivall.over-blog.com/articl...102388343.html

Syracuse University shows that global warming is not created by human activity
http://revivall.over-blog.com/articl...102384711.html

Climate change accelerated in 2001-2010
http://revivall.over-blog.com/articl...102310215.html

2012: Lunar swirls: Examining crustal magnetic anomalies and space weathering trends
http://revivall.over-blog.com/articl...102333097.html

Rare Rain on Titan; Once Every 1,000 Years
http://revivall.over-blog.com/articl...102390311.html

[stomy]

2011: Huge tornadoes discovered on the Sun
http://revivall.over-blog.com/articl...102505954.html

2012: The sun is in a period of intense activity that will peak next year
http://revivall.over-blog.com/articl...102507424.html

The asteroid 2012 EG5 will be the third asteroid to pass close by Earth within a week
http://revivall.over-blog.com/articl...102645001.html

[stomy]

Antarctic glacier: 85% of its mass has melted
http://revivall.over-blog.com/articl...102995715.html

2012: University of Hawai: Team of astronomers conclude that Earth usually has more than one moon
http://revivall.over-blog.com/articl...102791829.html

2012: Magnetic storms spotted on Venus
http://revivall.over-blog.com/articl...102961292.html

[sandy]

So much going on in our cosmos that the average Joe has no clue.

Thanks for all the links and heads up notices as to the activities happening out there in the beautiful Universe, stomy.

[stomy]

Southwest Research Institute: Intense asteroid impacts on Earth, raise questions about the source of impactors
http://revivall.over-blog.com/articl...104232446.html

University of Western Ontario: Astrophysicist uncovers secret origin of brown dwarfs
http://revivall.over-blog.com/articl...104674056.html

Astronauts condemn NASA’s global warming endorsement
http://revivall.over-blog.com/articl...103241282.html

Phoebe, Saturn's moon may have been captured
http://revivall.over-blog.com/articl...104234741.html

[stomy]

2012: Royal Astronomical Society: A brown dwarf helps reveal giant planets
http://revivall.over-blog.com/articl...105034163.html

1999: University of Louisiana at Lafayette: Cometary evidence of a massive body in the outer Oort cloud
http://revivall.over-blog.com/articl...105080170.html

The Kolbrin and Planet X
http://revivall.over-blog.com/articl...103064529.html

[stomy]

New Planet Found in Our Solar System?
http://revivall.over-blog.com/articl...105172509.html

[stomy]

Planet X? New Evidence of an Unseen Planet at Solar System's Edge
http://revivall.over-blog.com/articl...105738206.html

NASA Survey Counts Potentially Hazardous Asteroids
http://revivall.over-blog.com/articl...105332362.html

More of 1000 scientists dispute climate alarmism
http://revivall.over-blog.com/articl...105688050.html

2012: The Official Website of Air Force Reserve Command: Law authorizes mobilizing reservists to respond to natural disasters
http://revivall.over-blog.com/articl...105883996.html

[stomy]

2012: The Kavli Foundation: Nomads of the Galaxy
http://revivall.over-blog.com/articl...105905030.html

2012: ESA: Venus Express unearths new clues to the planet's geological history (Venus would it originated in another part of the galaxy?)
http://revivall.over-blog.com/articl...105905626.html

[ILikeVapor]

Hi Ross,

Yes. I can't speak more now. I ll continue my investigation with the prove of the change

If you can't tell us the exact date and location, yet you claim you know it, why would you bother even sayig that you know it? Just to brag?? Furthermore, you require us to follow your youtube channel to get further information. You're pushing Christianity, but your comments reek of self-promotion and greed (if you have unique and specific info but want it all to yourself.) Both traits I highly doubt Jesus would welcome...
So "WHAT WOULD JESUS DO?" if he had this information....I'm willing to wager he would handle it quite differently.
The information and links are interesting, but your approach leaves a lot to be desired.

[stomy]

2005: Cornell University Librairy: Mass Limit on Nemesis
http://revivall.over-blog.com/articl...108317023.html

2009: Cornell University Librairy: Constraints on planet X/Nemesis from Solar System's inner dynamics
http://revivall.over-blog.com/articl...108319052.html

2012: Saturn, the largest storm seen up-close
http://revivall.over-blog.com/articl...108373030.html

2012: River networks on Titan point to a puzzling geologic history
http://revivall.over-blog.com/articl...108371448.html

[stomy]

2012: NASA: The surface of the Greenland ice sheet melt in four days
http://revivall.over-blog.com/articl...108514722.html

2012: The City College of New York: Greenland Melting Breaks Record Four Weeks Early
http://revivall.over-blog.com/articl...109154289.html

2012: Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency: A new record minimum of the Arctic sea ice extent
http://revivall.over-blog.com/articl...109441007.html

NASA: Summer Temperature Anomalies for the Northern Hemisphere, 1955-2011
http://revivall.over-blog.com/articl...109002910.html

Worldwide Mass Animal Deaths for 2012 & 2011
http://revivall.over-blog.com/articl...109180115.html

[stomy]

2012: Observatory of Paris: Photochemistry on Venus: a very fast evolution
http://revivall.over-blog.com/articl...110697747.html

2012: Observatory of Paris: Discovery of a strong dissipation of energy inside Saturn
http://revivall.over-blog.com/articl...110697450.html

2012: Europlanet Research Infrastructure: Titan shows surprising seasonal changes
http://revivall.over-blog.com/articl...110696491.html

[stomy]

2012: University of Wisconsin: Disturbances on Uranus
http://revivall.over-blog.com/articl...111448645.html

2012: National Astronomical Observatory of Japan: Multiple Observations Reveal Unprecedented Changes on Jupiter
http://revivall.over-blog.com/articl...111412685.html

[pod]

Here is a sceptics view concerning Planet X and other 2012 scenarios. Just to balance the equation.

This is a long post but a worthy read...imo.


(pod) In regards to my personal view on Planet X, Nibiru, I have always used my commonsense, most notably the 500,000 registered amature and professional Astronomers (30,000 Professionals) who passionately ponder the Universe and all it's mysteries. I have spent hours on Astronomy forums reading and discerning their views and am of the opinion that Planet X, Nibiru is a complete hoax. I urge others to look beyond the alt scene for information concerning all things cosmic, solar sytems and above all, Science based cosomology.

You simply cannot dismiss the opinions of so many Astronomers as cover ups, deceptions and dis-info.


A NASA Scientist Answers the Top 20 Questions About 2012

About the author

Dr. David Morrison is the Director of the NASA Lunar Science Institute and Senior Scientist in the NASA Astrobiology Institute. Dr. Morrison received his Ph.D. in astronomy from Harvard University (where Carl Sagan was his thesis advisor) and has spent most of his career working in planetary science and astrobiology. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and of the California Academy of Sciences. He is recipient of the Dryden Medal for research of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics and the Sagan Medal of the American Astronomical Society for public communication. Morrison is a leading skeptic and proponent of improving science education and literacy. Asteroid 2410 Morrison is named in his honor.

PUBLIC CONCERN ABOUT DOOMSDAY IN December 2012 has blossomed into a major new presence on the Internet. This fear has begun to invade cable TV and Hollywood, and it is rapidly spreading internationally. The hoax originally concerned a return of the fictitious planet Nibiru in 2012, but it received a big boost when conspiracy theory websites began to link it to the end of the Mayan calendar long count at the winter solstice (December 21) of 2012. Over the past year, many unrelated groups have joined the doomsday chorus, including Nostradamus advocates, a wide variety of eschatological Christian, Native American, and spiritualist sects, and those who fear comet and asteroid impacts or violent solar storms. At the time of this writing there are more than 175 books listed on Amazon.com dealing with the 2012 doomsday. The most popular topics are the Mayan calendar and spiritual predictions that the disaster in 2012 will usher in a new age of happiness and spiritual growth. Quite a few authors are cashing in with manuals on how to survive 2012.

As this hoax spreads, many more doomsday scenarios are being suggested, mostly unrelated to Nibiru. These include a reversal of the Earth’s magnetic field, severe solar storms associated with the 11-year solar cycle (which may peak in 2012), a reversal of Earth’s rotation axis, a 90- degree flip of the rotation axis, bombardment by large comets or asteroids, bombardment by gamma rays, or various unspecified lethal rays coming from the center of the Milky Way Galaxy or the “dark rift” seen in a nearby galactic spiral arm. A major theme has become celestial alignments: supposedly the Sun will align with the galactic center (or maybe with the Milky Way Dark Rift) on December 21, 2012, subjecting us to mysterious and potentially deadly forces.

I answer questions from the public submitted online to a NASA website, and over the past two years the Nibiru-2012 doomsday has become the dominant topic people ask about. Many are curious about things they have seen on the Internet or TV, but many are also angry about supposed government cover-ups. As one wrote “Why are you lying about Nibiru? Everyone knows it is coming.” Others are genuinely frightened that the world will end just three years from now. My frustration in answering questions piecemeal motivates this “Twenty Questions” format to organize the facts and shine a skeptical light on this accumulation of myths and hoaxes.

1. What is the origin of the prediction that the world will end in December 2012?

The story started with claims that Nibiru, a supposed planet discovered by the Sumerians, is headed toward Earth. Zecharia Sitchin, who writes fiction about the ancient Mesopotamian civilization of Sumer, claimed in several books (e.g., The Twelfth Planet, published in 1976) that he has found and translated Sumerian documents that identify the planet Nibiru, orbiting the Sun every 3600 years. These Sumerian fables include stories of “ancient astronauts” visiting Earth from a civilization of aliens called the Anunnaki. Then Nancy Lieder, a self-declared psychic who claims she is channeling aliens, wrote on her website Zetatalk that the inhabitants of a fictional planet around the star Zeta Reticuli warned her that the Earth was in danger from Planet X or Nibiru. This catastrophe was initially predicted for May 2003, but when nothing happened the doomsday date was recalculated (a standard procedure for doomsdayers) and moved forward to December 2012. Only recently have these two fables been linked to the end of the Mayan long-count at the winter solstice in 2012—hence the predicted doomsday date of December 21, 2012.

2. The Sumerians were the first great civilization, and they made many accurate astronomical predictions, including the existence of the planets Uranus, Neptune and Pluto. So why should we not believe their predictions about Nibiru?

Nibiru is a name from Babylonian astrology sometimes associated with the god Marduk. Nibiru appears as a minor character in the Babylonian creation poem Enuma Elish as recorded in the library of Assurbanipal, King of Assyria (668–627 BCE). Sumer flourished much earlier, from about the 23rd century to the 17th century BCE. The claims that Nibiru is a planet and was known to the Sumerians are contradicted by scholars who (unlike Zecharia Sitchin) study and translate the written records of ancient Mesopotamia. Sumer was indeed a great civilization, important for the development of agriculture, water management, urban life, and especially writing. However, they left few astronomical records and they most certainly did not know about Uranus, Neptune or Pluto. They also had no understanding that the planets orbited the Sun, an idea that first developed in ancient Greece two millennia after the end of Sumer. Claims that Sumerians had a sophisticated astronomy, or that they even had a god named Nibiru, are the product of Sitchin’s imagination.

3. How can you deny the existence of Nibiru when NASA discovered it in 1983 and the story appeared in leading newspapers? At that time you called it Planet X, and later it was named Xena or Eris.

IRAS (the NASA Infrared Astronomy Satellite, which carried out a sky survey for 10 months in 1983) discovered many infrared sources, but none of them was Nibiru or Planet X or any other objects in the outer solar system. Briefly, IRAS cataloged 350,000 infrared sources, and initially many of these sources were unidentified (which was the point, of course, of making such a survey). All of these observations have been followed up by subsequent studies with more powerful instruments both on the ground and in space. The rumor about a “tenth planet” erupted in 1984 after a scientific paper was published in Astrophysical Journal Letters titled “Unidentified point sources in the IRAS minisurvey,” which discussed several infrared sources with “no counterparts.” But these “mystery objects” were subsequently found to be distant galaxies (except one, which was a wisp of “infrared cirrus”), as published in 1987. No IRAS source has ever turned out to be a planet. A good discussion of this whole issue is to be found on Phil Plait’s website. The bottom line is that Nibiru is a myth, with no basis in fact. To an astronomer, persistent claims about a planet that is “nearby” but “invisible” are just plain silly.

4. Maybe we should be asking about Planet X or Eris, not Nibiru. Why does NASA keep secret the orbit of Eris?

“Planet X” is an oxymoron when applied to a real object. The generic term has been used by astronomers over the past century for a possible or suspected object. Once the object is found, it is given a real name, as was done with Pluto and Eris, both of which were once referred to as Planet X. If a new object turns out to be not real, or not a planet, then you won’t hear about it again. If it is real, it is no longer called Planet X. Eris is one of several dwarf planets recently found by astronomers in the outer solar system, all of them on normal orbits that will never bring them near Earth. Like Pluto, Eris is smaller than our Moon. It is very far away, and its orbit never brings it closer than about 4 billion miles. There is no secret about Eris or its orbit, as you can easily verify by googling it or looking it up in Wikipedia.

5. Do you deny that NASA built a South Pole Telescope (SPT) to track Nibiru? Why else would they build a telescope at the South Pole?

There is a telescope at the South Pole, but it was not built by NASA and it is not used to study Nibiru. The South Pole Telescope is supported by the National Science Foundation, and it is a radio telescope, not an optical instrument. It cannot take visible light images or photos. You can look it up on Wikipedia. The Antarctic is a great place for astronomical infrared and short-wave-radio observations, and it also has the advantage that objects can be observed continuously without the interference of the day-night cycle. I should add that it is impossible to imagine a way in which an object can be seen only from the South Pole. Even if it were due south of the Earth, it could be seen from the entire southern hemisphere.

6. There are many photos and videos of Nibiru on the Internet. Isn’t that proof that it exists?

The great majority of the photos and videos on the Internet are of some feature near the Sun (apparently supporting the claim that Nibiru has been hiding behind the Sun for the past several years). These are actually false images of the Sun caused by internal reflections in the lens, often called lens flare. You can identify them easily by the fact that they appear diametrically opposite the real solar image, as if reflected across the center of the image. This is especially obvious in videos, where as the camera moves, the false image dances about always exactly opposite the real image. Similar lens flare is a source of many UFO photos taken at night with strong light sources such as streetlights in the frame. I am surprised that more people don’t recognize this common photo artifact. I am also amazed that these photos showing something nearly as large and bright as the Sun (a “second sun”) are accepted together with claims made on some of the same websites that Nibiru is too faint to be seen or photographed except with large telescopes.

One widely reported telescopic photo shows two views of an expanding gas cloud far beyond the solar system, which is not moving; you can see this from the fact that the stars are the same in both pictures. A sharp-eyed reader on my website identified these photos as a gas shell around the star V838 Mon. Wikipedia has a nice write-up and a beautiful photo of it from the Hubble. Another high school student was initially impressed by posted images of a red blob that were said to be of Nibiru. Then he worked out in his Photoshop class how to make just such pictures starting from scratch. One video posted in summer 2008 on YouTube shows a guy standing in his kitchen claiming that one of the objects discovered by NASA’s x-ray telescope is Nibiru. What is his evidence? That since this false-color x-ray image released by NASA is blue, this must really be a nearby planet with an ocean. This would be hilarious if it were not used to frighten people.

7. Can you explain the fact that the area at (5h 53m 27s, -6 10′ 58″) has been blackened out in Google Sky and Microsoft Telescope? People suggest that these have been blackened out because those are the co-ordinates where Nibiru is located at present.

Several people have asked me about this blank rectangle in Orion in Google Sky, which is a presentation of images from the Sloan Digital Survey. This can’t be a “hiding place” for Nibiru, since it is a part of the sky that could be seen from almost everywhere on the Earth in the winter of 2007–08 when much of the talk about Nibiru began. Plus, that would contradict the claims that Nibiru was hiding behind the Sun or that it could be seen only from the southern hemisphere. But I too was curious about this blank rectangle, so I asked a friend who is a senior scientist at Google. He replied that he “found out that the missing data is due to a processing error in the image stitching program we use to display the Sloan survey images. The team assures me that in the next run through, this will be fixed!”

8. If the government knew about Nibiru, wouldn’t they keep it a secret to avoid panic? Isn’t it the government’s job to keep the population at ease?

There are many objectives of government, but they do not include keeping the population at ease. My experience is that sometimes parts of the government do just the opposite, as in the frequent references to various terrorist threats or warnings about driving accidents on long holiday weekends, which are no more dangerous than any other time. There is a long history of associating bad things with political opponents (older readers will remember the “missile gap” in the 1960 election, younger ones will note the many current references to who is or is not keeping the U.S. safe from terrorists). Further, social scientists have pointed out that many of our concepts of public panic are the product of Hollywood, while in the real world people have a good record of helping each other in a time of danger. I think everyone also recognizes that keeping bad news secret usually backfires, making the issue even worse when the facts finally come out. And in the case of Nibiru, these facts would come out very soon indeed.

Even if it wanted to, however, the government could not keep Nibiru a secret. If Nibiru were real, it would be tracked by thousands of astronomers, amateurs as well as professionals. These astronomers are spread all over the world. I know the astronomy community, and these scientists would not keep a secret even if ordered to. You just can’t hide a planet on its way into the inner solar system!

9. Why does the Mayan calendar say the world will end in 2012? I have heard that they have been pretty accurate in the past with other planetary predictions. How can you be sure you know more than they did?

Calendars exist for keeping track of the passage of time, not for predicting the future. The Mayan astronomers were clever, and they developed a very complex calendar. Ancient calendars are interesting to historians, but of course they cannot match the ability we have today to keep track of time, or the precision of the calendars currently in use. The main point, however, is that calendars, whether contemporary or ancient, cannot predict the future of our planet or warn of things to happen on a specific date such as 2012.

I note that my desk calendar ends much sooner, on December 31, 2009, but I do not interpret this as a prediction of Armageddon. It is just the beginning of a new year.

10. What is the polar shift theory? Is it true that the Earth’s crust does a 180-degree rotation around the core in a matter of days if not hours? Does this have something to do with our solar system dipping beneath the galactic equator?

A reversal in the rotation of Earth is impossible. It has never happened and never will. There are slow movements of the continents (for example Antarctica was near the equator hundreds of millions of years ago), but that is irrelevant to claims of reversal of the rotational poles. However, many of the disaster websites pull a bait-and-switch to fool people. They claim a relationship between the rotation and the magnetic field of Earth, which does change irregularly with a magnetic reversal taking place, on average, every 400,000 years. As far as we know, such a magnetic reversal does not cause any harm to life on Earth. A magnetic reversal is very unlikely to happen in the next few millennia, anyway. But the 2012ers falsely claim that a magnetic reversal is coming soon (in 2012 of course) and that this is the same as, or will trigger, a reversal of Earth’s rotational poles. The bottom line is this: (a) rotation direction and magnetic polarity are not related; (b) there is no reason to expect a reversal of magnetic polarity any time soon, or to anticipate any bad effects on life when it does eventually happen; (c) a sudden shift in the rotational pole with disastrous consequences is impossible. Also, none of this has anything to do with the galactic equator or any of the other nonsense about alignments that appears on many of the doomsday websites.

11. When most of the planets align in 2012 and planet Earth is in the center of the Milky Way, what will the effects of this be on planet Earth? Could it cause a pole shift, and if so what could we expect?

There is no planet alignment in 2012 or any other time in the next several decades. As to the Earth being in the center of the Milky Way, I don’t know what this phrase means. If they are referring to the Milky Way Galaxy, we are some 30,000 light years from the center of this spiral galaxy. We circle the galactic center in a period of 225–250 million years, always keeping approximately the same distance. Concerning a pole shift, I also don’t know what this means. If it means some sudden change in the position of the pole (that is, the rotation axis of the Earth), then that is impossible, as noted above. What many websites do discuss is the alignment of the Earth and Sun with the center of the Milky Way in the constellation of Sagittarius. This happens every December, with no bad consequences, and there is no reason to expect 2012 to be different from any other year.

12. When the Sun and the Earth line up on the galactic plane at the same time with the black hole being in the center couldn’t that cause something to happen, due to the fact that the black hole has such a strong gravitational pull?

There is a supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy, and like any concentration of mass it exerts gravitational force on the rest of the galaxy. However, the galactic center is very far away, approximately 30,000 light years, so it has negligible effects on our solar system and Earth. There are no special forces from the galactic plane or the galactic center. The only important force that acts on the Earth is the gravitation of the Sun and Moon. As far as the influence of the galactic plane, there is nothing special about this location. The last time the Earth was in the galactic plane was several million years ago. Claims that we are about to cross the galactic plane are untrue.

13. I am scared about the fact that the Earth will enter the Dark Rift in the Milky Way. What will this do? Will the Earth be swallowed up?

The “dark rift” is a popular name for the broad and diffuse dust clouds in the inner arm of the Milky Way Galaxy, which block our view of the galactic center. The entire “galactic alignment” scare is ridiculous. Late in December the Sun is always approximately in the direction of the center of the Galaxy as seen from the Earth, but so what? Apparently the scaremongers have decided to use these meaningless phrases about “alignments” and the “dark rift” and “photon belt” precisely because they are not understood by the public. As far as the safety of the Earth is concerned, the important threats are from global warming and loss of biological diversity, and perhaps someday from collision with an asteroid or comet, not the pseudoscientific claims about 2012.

14. I have heard that the Earth’s magnetic field will flip in 2012 just when the strongest level of solar storms in history is predicted to take place. Will this kill us or destroy our civilization?

Near solar maximum (which happens approximately every 11 years), there are many more solar flares and coronal mass ejections than near solar minimum. Flares and mass ejections are no danger for humans or other life on Earth. They could endanger astronauts in deep space or on the Moon, and this is something that NASA must learn to deal with, but it is not a problem for us. Large outbursts can interrupt radio transmissions, cause bright displays of the aurora (Northern and Southern Lights), and damage the electronics of some satellites in space. Today many satellites are designed to deal with this possibility, for example by switching off some of their more delicate circuits and going into a “safe” mode for a few hours. In extreme cases solar activity can also disrupt electrical transmissions on the ground, possibly leading to electrical blackouts, but this is rare.

The last solar maximum occurred in 2001, so the next one was predicted for around 2012, 11 years later. However, the most recent solar minimum was unusual, with a period of a couple of years with almost no sunspots or other indications of solar activity, so scientists now guess that the next maximum will be delayed, perhaps to 2013. However, the details of the solar cycle remain basically unpredictable.

It is true that the Earth’s magnetic field protects us by creating a large region in space, called the Earth’s magnetosphere, within which most of the material ejected from the Sun is captured or deflected, but there is no reason to expect a reversal of magnetic polarity any time soon. These magnetic reversals happen, on average, only once in 400,000 years.

15. I am confused about a report on the Fox News website that in 2012 a “Powerful Solar Storm Could Shut Down U.S. for Months.” They referred to a report from the National Academy of Sciences that was commissioned and paid for by NASA. If nothing is going to happen as a result of the event in 2012, why would NASA allow such nonsense to be reported?

NASA is pleased with the National Research Council report on heliophysics. As noted, this report includes a worst-case analysis of what could happen today if there were a repetition of the biggest solar storm ever recorded (in 1859). The problem is the way such information can be used out of context. There is no reason to expect such a large solar storm in the near future, certainly not in 2012 specifically. The reference to “the event in 2012” illustrates this problem. There is no prediction of an “event in 2012.” We don’t even know if the next solar maximum will take place in that year. The whole 2012 disaster scenario is a hoax, fueled by ads for the Hollywood science-fiction disaster film 2012. I can only hope that most people are able to distinguish Hollywood film plots from reality.

16. All my school friends are telling me that we are all going to die in the year 2012 due to a meteor hitting Earth. Is this true?

The Earth has always been subject to impacts by comets and asteroids (as has the Moon, as you can see because it has no atmosphere to erode the impact craters), although big hits are very rare. The last big impact was 65 million years ago, and that led to the extinction of the dinosaurs. Today NASA astronomers are carrying out the Spaceguard Survey to find any large near-Earth asteroids long before they hit. We have already determined that there are no threatening asteroids as large as the one that killed the dinosaurs. All this work is done openly with the discoveries posted every day on the NASA NEO Program Office website, so anyone can see that nothing is predicted to hit in 2012.

17. If Nibiru is a hoax, why doesn’t NASA issue a denial? How can you permit these stories to circulate and frighten people? Why doesn’t the U.S. government do something about it!

If you go to the NASA home page, nasa.gov, you will see many stories that expose the Nibiru-2012 hoax. Try searching nasa.com under “Nibiru” or “2012”. There is not much more that NASA can do. These hoaxes have nothing to do with NASA and are not based on NASA data, so we as an agency are not directly involved. But scientists, both within NASA and outside, recognize that this hoax with its effort to frighten people is a distraction from more important scientific concerns, such as global warming and loss of biological diversity. We live in a country where there is freedom of speech, and that includes the freedom to lie. We should be glad there are no censors. But if we will use common sense we can recognize the lies. As we approach 2012, the lies will be come even more obvious.

18. Can you prove to me that Nibiru is a hoax? There are so many reports that something terrible will happen in 2012. I need proof because the government and NASA are keeping so much from us.

Such questions should be put to the doomsday advocates to prove that what they are saying is true, not to NASA to prove it is false. If someone claimed on the Internet that there were 50-foot tall purple elephants walking through Cleveland, would anyone expect NASA to prove this wrong? The burden of proof falls on those who make wild claims. Remember the often-quoted comment from Carl Sagan that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

However, I think that astronomers have reached the point where we can offer extremely strong arguments that Nibiru does not exist. A large planet (or a brown dwarf) in our solar system would have been known to astronomers for many years, both indirectly from its gravitational perturbations on other objects and by direct detection in the infrared. The NASA Infrared Astronomy Satellite (IRAS) carried out the first allsky survey in 1983, and several subsequent surveys would also have seen Nibiru if it were there. Further, if a large mass passed through the inner solar system every 3600 years, we would see its disruptive effects on the orbits of the inner planets, and we don’t.

But don’t take my word for it. Just use common sense. Have you seen Nibiru? In 2008 many websites said it would be visible to the naked eye in spring 2009. If a large planet or brown dwarf were headed for the inner solar system in 2012, it would already be tracked by thousands of astronomers, both professional and amateur, all over the world. Do you know any amateur astronomers who are watching it? Have you seen any photos or discussion of it in the big popular astronomy magazines such as Astronomy or Sky & Telescope? Just think about it. No one could hide something like Nibiru if it existed.

19. What about the scary ads for the new film 2012? They tell us to look at these Internet sites to verify the doomsday threat.

The pseudoscientific claims about Nibiru and a doomsday in 2012, together with distrust of the government, are being amplified by publicity for the new film from Columbia Pictures titled 2012, to be released in November 2009. The film’s trailer, appearing in theaters and on their website, shows a tidal wave breaking over the Himalayas, with the following words: “How would the governments of our planet prepare 6 billion people for the end of the world? [long pause] They wouldn’t. [long pause] Find out the Truth. Google search 2012.”

The film publicity includes a faux scientific website for “The Institute for Human Continuity”, which is entirely fictitious. According to this website, the IHC is dedicated to scientific research and public preparedness. Its mission is the survival of humanity. The website explains that the Institute was founded in 1978 by international leaders of government, business, and science. They say that in 2004, IHC scientists confirmed with 94% certainty that the world would be destroyed in 2012. This website encourages people to register for a lottery to select those who will be saved; a colleague submitted the name of her cat, which was accepted. According to Wikipedia, creating this sort of fake website is a new advertising technique called “Viral Marketing,” by analogy with computer viruses.

20. Is it possible that the influx of questions you describe is part of some kind of campaign for a book or movie, in the hopes that the volume of denials is taken as more “evidence” that there is a conspiracy?

I ask myself the same questions every day, as the volume of mail I receive about Nibiru (along with various alignments and pole shifts) keeps increasing—now more than 20 per week. Clearly there is money to be made from people’s fear about an approaching doomsday. Many websites are selling books and tapes about Nibiru or even “survival kits.” It is all very sad, given the many real issues such as global warming and the financial collapse on which our attentions should be focused. In the final chapter of a new astronomy book (The Hunt for Planet X) Govert Shilling writes: “There is plenty to do for the debunkers—the archaeologists and astronomers who take a long and skeptical look at the tidal wave of Nibiru nonsense and explain with scientific precision what is wrong with this cosmic fairy-tale. They will have their work cut out in the next few years. And on December 22, 2012 there will be a new pseudoscientific cock-and-bull story making the rounds and the whole circus will start all over again, because no matter how many new celestial bodies are found in our solar system, there will always be a need for a mysterious Planet X.”

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