Anyone up to date on the 10th planet called Nibiru?

Question

I've read that this 10th planet of our solar system is supposed to complete it's orbit every 3,600 years. It's next approach is in 2012 and because of it's tremendous gravitational affect, will cause planet Earth to be devastated by natural disasters. Please tell me that this is not true!!!!

Answer 1

The thing aboiut objects that are in the Kuiper Belt and further out is that they tend to stay there and their perihelion remains outside the orbit of Neptune. Pluto does cross inside it for 20 years of its 248-Earth Years-long year but it is the exception.

Sedna which goes as far out as the Oort Cloud has an Aphelion distance of 975.056 AU, a Perihelion distance of 76.156 AU, a
semi-major axis of 525.606 AU and an Orbital period of 12,050.32 years. i.e. 4 times that of the alleged Nibiru. It does not enter the Inner Solar System.

So I think it highly unlikely that a planet or dwarf planet will get past 4 gas giants and Mars and get here in 5 years time. The massive gravitational influence of the gas giants would deflect it from its course, I suggest.

Isn't it convenient how the myth-spinners manage to time its arrival to coincide with Mayan prophecies! When the Mayans and the Babylonians did not even know of each others' existence, let alone their prophesies, as they were on opposite sides of the world, from one another, a world without any ocean-crossing liners and telecommunications!

Answer 2

A period of 3600 years?!?!? That would place it at a distance from the sun that recieves 0.0018% of the energy per square metre than the earth does. That would make it so cold life couldn't start. Although, in theory, I suppose an advanced life form from another solar system who had technology which would give them virtually infinite energy could survive there by generating their own heat. But why would they bother? A tenth planet isn't a matter of belief, it's a matter of developing telescopes which can see far enough to check. Which they are doing. Wait another decade and you will have proof one way or the other.

Answer 3

Nibiru does exist. However, it is the planet Jupiter. Nibiru is the ancient Babylonian name for Jupiter.

However, there is a convoluted interpretation of Babylonian astrology, proposed by just one person, that contains this absurd story.

Answer 4

yep this is one of those bollox stories for people trying to make science into a religion. like cropcircles and alien obduction.

our star is not binary, we do not have an invisible brown dwarf orbiting beond pluto, as of yet there is no 10th planet, infact there isnt even a 9th, pluto got demoted to a planetoid asteroid.
and any planet in any orbit crossing another planets orbit would eventually collide, even if its cycle is 3200 years.

its allllllll bollox bollox bollox.

Answer 5

Not true. There are several Oort Cloud and Kuiper Belt objects that may be planet sized, but none are big enough to do that. That would take an object bigger than our Sun. We'd have seen it by now.

Answer 6

There is no such planet. If there were, and if it were actually as large as you say, and if it were in such an orbit, and if it were scheduled to reach its closest approach in 2012, then it should already be visible. And it isn't. So it does not exist.

Answer 7

i dont know this is news to me.... but that doesnt seem possible.
Plus, it couldnt come close enought to have any effect, exscecially if it takes 3,600 years to orbit which means its very very very very very (do you get my point?) very far out. Also, its most likely a KBO (kuiper belt object) which means its very small, relitive to everything else. It most definantly wouldn't have any effect, if such an object does exsit at all.

Answer 8

You are correct. This is not true.