A lone crackpot, Nancy Lieder, seems to have been the originator of the 2003 doomsday scenario. Her Zetatalk site is still in existence ( http://www.zetatalk.com/ ).
I'm not sure what the explanation is, but some people get off on predicting the end of the world, and others become passionately attached to the predictions. Even after her grand fizzle in 2003, Nancy managed to keep some of her followers happy with revised predictions. Perhaps, like conspiracy theorists and street-corner fire-and-brimstone preachers, these people gain a sense of importance by believing they "know" something everyone else scoffs at. In any case, it's been going on in one form or another for centuries, if not millennia.
2007-11-06 07:59:13
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answered by injanier 7
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Planet X came side by side with the discovery of UB313 newly renamed as Eris. When Eris was discovered and proven to be larger than Pluto, other people went nuts and started saying there were new planets. Since nobody actually discovered new planets, yet everyone wanted to talk about them, this mystery planet was named Planet X. Planet X does not exist, its just a uniform name people used when discussing this story. The only legitimate part of the Planet X tale is that there are (now called dwarf planets) larger than pluto.
2007-11-06 15:42:28
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answered by billyjoebob1992 1
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Planet Xenia, discovered by Dan Brown. With new definitions of Solar System planets it's now considered to "merely" be a large Kuiper Belt Object (KBO). There are actually several known KBOs that fall just short of the size requirements for planets. Pluto itself, formerly considered a planet, has now been re-designated as a KBO.
2007-11-06 15:58:03
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answered by Dendronbat Crocoduck 6
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A non-existent cause of one of the numerous doomsday events for Earth that was predicted but never came true.
2007-11-06 15:48:19
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answered by cyswxman 7
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It's called "Nonsense".
Did you swallow it? Hook, line and sinker?
:-)
2007-11-06 15:37:28
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answered by Anonymous
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