Is there any proof to support the theory some Religious sects have of a rogue planet or dark star?

Question

That is supposed to orbit our Earth every 3,600 years or something and reverse the poles, shift and destroy everything material and throw the Earth into an ice age...(something like that, who knows how it would really go down anyway).

Is there evidence for it in any holy book? Has any scientists found it up there in the Heavens yet?

Answer 1

Sounds like something L. Ron Hubbard might have written.

Answer 2

>> That is supposed to orbit our Earth every 3,600 years or something and reverse the poles, shift and destroy everything material and throw the Earth into an ice age...(something like that, who knows how it would really go down anyway)

Reference paper/article? The shifting of the poles is a reversal of the earth's iron core shifting in a different configuration due to (most probably) the dynamo theory ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamo_theory ) of how it is generated.

( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geomagnetic_reversal )

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>> That is supposed to orbit our Earth

No such object. The gravity required for an orbit around the Earth is not sufficient to hold a celestial body with an orbital period of 3,600 years. (For instance, we know that 136199 Eris, at an extreme distance to the sun, has an orbital period of 557.) ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbital_period )

Answer 3

No, there's no evidence for a rouge planet or star. We are pretty sure the things you listed are caused by unusual activity from the Sun, which we have documented. Look up 'Maunder minimum'.

If there were another star or planet nearby, we would definitely know about it - you can't hide the gravitational field it would cause, and it would throw off the orbits of anything nearby it. So no. Those religions are wrong.

Answer 4

We ARE finding new satilettes and star systems all the time. The universe is a big, big place. We already have problems with things like dark matter.

It wouldn't make sense though. We usually guess if there's extra mass in a system by the behaviour of the other planets. But there's too much we don't know, it could easily be possible.

Answer 5

It sounds like something a doomsday cult would come up with. If there is something out there, astrologers will find it.

Answer 6

There is no real proof to verify ANY religion.
Nothing but fait and hope