If there are two things that the human race enjoys are conspiracy theories and the apocalypse. The idea of
a planet in a collision course with the Earth, whose data are being hidden by NASA, is therefore a great victory for mankind.
This is the case with the theory of Nibiru, a planet that had already appeared in Sumerian texts, the people who inhabited ancient Mesopotamia - where today lies Iraq. The celestial body would be located beyond the orbit of Pluto and would approach the Sun every 3600 years. Theoretically, the planet was about to collide with Earth and would cause an epic catastrophe that would destroy all civilization.
What the conspiracy theorists have forgotten is that the idea has no scientific foundation at all. "Nibiru and other stories of fickle planets are internet gossip. There is no theoretical basis for these claims,"
NASA emphasized in an announcement.
The perils of Nibiru, Planet X, Hercolubus, and other wandering bodies reappear from time to time to scare unwary Internet users. It was so with the end of the world in 2012 that as far as we know it did not come true - unless we are all Bruce Willis in The Sixth Sense.
Nibiru: the origin
In fact, it's been since the 1990s: it was when a certain Nancy Lieder, who claims to be a medium who receives messages from ETs from a distant star, posted on her ZetaTalk blog that the world would end in 2003. Lieder said that the aliens alerted her that a wandering world, Planet X, would collide with the Earth, causing the poles to reverse and bring the apocalypse.
It was not long before the star was associated with Nibiru. The latter was popularized in the 1970s by the writer Zecharia Sitchin, who vows tooth and nails that ancient alien astronauts visited the Earth and that the planet was inhabited by sentient beings who, in the last passage here, modified the genes of primitive humans and they enslaved them for gold.
itchin never said that Nibiru would collide with Earth, and denied any relation, but Lieder took advantage of the popularity of this rumor to associate his Planet X with the imaginary star of Sitchin. Like the world, the hoax also did not end in 2003: it was being postponed indefinitely.
It remains so until 2017. According to the American writer David Meade, author of Planet X - The 2017 Arrival ("Planet X"), a new end of the world will happen on September 23 of this year. , also has no scientific basis.
Science explains
"If it existed, by this time Nibiru would be so close to Earth that it would already be perfectly detectable by telescopes all over the world, including amateur astronomers," explains astronomer Gustavo Rojas, a professor at the Federal University of São Carlos and a member of the press from the Brazilian Astronomical Society.
"Depending on its size, it could already be visible even to the naked eye," says the astronomer, noting that planets like Saturn are easily observable from Earth, even though they are more than 1 billion miles from us - you can confuse them with stars, but, unlike the stars, the planets do not "blink".
In addition to the observational visibility, certainly by now the gravity of a star of this size would have already caused considerable damage to the orbits of the planets and smaller bodies. But, it seems, the Earth remains in place, just like Mars, the asteroid belt and our planetary guardian, Jupiter.
And if it depends on this end of the world that never arrives and only creates false alarms and unnecessary panic, it will remain here for a long time.
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