2007-07-10 03:39:00 · 6 answers · asked by bmw 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
There is no giant planet called Nibiru which some mystics claim has a 3,000 year orbital period, which will be here in 2012 (now what a coincidence, the very same year the Mayan calendar mystics are plugging as doomsday!) and will allegedly wreak chaos, havoc and mayhem on Earth.
The simple question "Okay, where is it then?" is usually enough to floor the Nibiru adherents. If it is going to be here in less than 5 years' time and it is as huge as they claim, we should have been able to get a glimpse of it by now! NASA's telescopes would have got a fix on it and its orbit been precisely calculated by teams of astronomers worldwide. And there would have been news of it on NASA's website, space.com's website and Sky and Telescope's website.
Yet as there isn't any such news, it is a fairly safe conclusion that there is no such thing as Nibiru.
The ancient Babylonians (from whom the Nibiru myth is derived), and the ancient Mayan civilisation did not know of each other's existence, separated as they were by a vast ocean, with no ocean-going ships to bridge it and no telecommunications satellites to beam messages to one another. So it is very curious how 21st century mystics are concatenating beliefs and features of both civilisations into a weird amalgam of doomsday prophecies to suit their own purposes in a synthesis which neither the Babylonians nor the Mayans could have possibly assembled at the time!
2007-07-10 04:24:46 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Planrt X was name as such because in the past there was a search for a planet that would fit Bode's Law. Ceres and Pluto did fit into bode's law. However these planets were so small that at present they have been disqualified as planets.
2007-07-10 11:14:34 · answer #2 · answered by goring 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nope. And now that Pluto is no longer a planet, you can rephrase your question as "Is there such thing of planet IX?"
Beyond Neptune, in the Ort cloud, there are many, many large "planetoids","asteroids", etc. but none of them are large enough to be considered planets.
2007-07-10 10:42:42 · answer #3 · answered by jjsocrates 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It was determined to not be a planet (in the process getting Pluto kicked out of the family).
2007-07-10 10:42:56 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
In the movies!
2007-07-10 10:46:14 · answer #5 · answered by MsCrtr 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I wish...
2007-07-10 11:15:23 · answer #6 · answered by Lexington 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋