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For the other claims, see <a href="/wiki/Planet_X" title="Planet X">Planet X</a>.</div></i> <p><b>Nibiru</b> (sometimes misspelled as "Niburu") is, according to the <a href="/wiki/Pseudoscience" title="Pseudoscience">pseudoscientific</a> ideas of <a href="/wiki/Zecharia_Sitchin" title="Zecharia Sitchin">Zecharia Sitchin</a>, the name of a "twelfth planet"<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1">[note 1]</a></sup> in the <a href="/wiki/Solar_System" title="Solar System">Solar System</a> with a highly eccentric 3,600-year orbit that periodically comes close to the <a href="/wiki/Earth" title="Earth">Earth</a>, causing cataclysms. Sitchin based his claims on creative (mis)translations of ancient <a href="/wiki/Sumer" title="Sumer">Sumerian</a> texts and on no-less-creative interpretation of ancient Sumerian images. </p><p>The word Nibiru does in fact refer to a planet known to the ancient Sumerians. This planet is more commonly known as <a href="/wiki/Jupiter" title="Jupiter">Jupiter</a>, and is not expected to collide with the earth anytime soon. </p> <div id="toc" class="toc" role="navigation" aria-labelledby="mw-toc-heading"><input type="checkbox" role="button" id="toctogglecheckbox" class="toctogglecheckbox" style="display:none" /><div class="toctitle" lang="en" dir="ltr"><h2 id="mw-toc-heading">Contents</h2><span class="toctogglespan"><label class="toctogglelabel" for="toctogglecheckbox"></label></span></div> <ul> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1"><a href="#Planet_recycling"><span class="tocnumber">1</span> <span class="toctext">Planet recycling</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2"><a href="#Problems_with_the_idea"><span class="tocnumber">2</span> <span class="toctext">Problems with the idea</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3"><a href="#See_also"><span class="tocnumber">3</span> <span class="toctext">See also</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4"><a href="#External_links"><span class="tocnumber">4</span> <span class="toctext">External links</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-5"><a href="#Notes"><span class="tocnumber">5</span> <span class="toctext">Notes</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-6"><a href="#References"><span class="tocnumber">6</span> <span class="toctext">References</span></a></li> </ul> </div> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Planet_recycling">Planet recycling</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Nibiru&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Planet recycling">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <p>After <a href="/wiki/Nancy_Lieder" class="mw-redirect" title="Nancy Lieder">Nancy Lieder</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Planet_X" title="Planet X">Planet X</a> fiasco in 2003, hers and Sitchin's imaginary planets became conflated and were peddled by various individuals as a cause for a <a href="/wiki/2012_apocalypse" title="2012 apocalypse">2012 apocalypse</a>. It <i>totally</i> happened that time; remember when everyone died? Later, David Meade recycled Sitchin's "apocalypse" with a <a href="/wiki/Prediction" title="Prediction">prediction</a> that Planet X/Nibiru would collide with Earth on September 23 using as proof a rare (actually not so rare, as it has happened several times before) conjunction between the Sun, the Moon, and several planets and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revelation_12" class="extiw" title="wp:Revelation 12" rel="nofollow"><span style="color:#477979 !important;" title="Wikipedia: Revelation 12">interpretation</span></a><sup><img alt="Wikipedia" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/12px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="12" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/18px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/24px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128" /></sup> of a passage of the <a href="/wiki/Book_of_Revelation" title="Book of Revelation">Book of Revelation</a>, later moved to October 2017.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2">[1]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3">[2]</a></sup> with the same result.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4">[note 2]</a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/NASA" title="NASA">NASA</a> states, “There is no credible evidence whatever for the existence of Niburu. There are no pictures, there’s no tracking, there’s no astronomical observations,” Dr. David Morrison of NASA said, “So there really isn’t any evidence here to counter.” and added a planet so close would be “easily visible to the naked eye,” proving further that it does not exist.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5">[3]</a></sup> </p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Problems_with_the_idea">Problems with the idea</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Nibiru&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Problems with the idea">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <p><i>See also <a href="/wiki/Brown_dwarf#Planet_X.2FNibiru" title="Brown dwarf">Brown dwarf</a></i> </p> <div class="thumb tright"><div class="thumbinner" style="width:167px;"><a href="/wiki/File:Nibiru_is_NOT_coming.jpeg" class="image"><img alt="" src="/w/images/thumb/a/a2/Nibiru_is_NOT_coming.jpeg/165px-Nibiru_is_NOT_coming.jpeg" decoding="async" width="165" height="124" class="thumbimage" srcset="/w/images/thumb/a/a2/Nibiru_is_NOT_coming.jpeg/248px-Nibiru_is_NOT_coming.jpeg 1.5x, /w/images/thumb/a/a2/Nibiru_is_NOT_coming.jpeg/330px-Nibiru_is_NOT_coming.jpeg 2x" data-file-width="2048" data-file-height="1536" /></a> <div class="thumbcaption"><div class="magnify"><a href="/wiki/File:Nibiru_is_NOT_coming.jpeg" class="internal" title="Enlarge"></a></div>That's no <s>moon</s> planet</div></div></div> <p>A planet is a <i>big</i> thing that can be seen from very far away, even if its <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/albedo" class="extiw" title="wp:albedo" rel="nofollow"><span style="color:#477979 !important;" title="Wikipedia: albedo">albedo</span></a><sup><img alt="Wikipedia" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/12px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="12" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/18px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/24px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128" /></sup> was very low<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6">[note 3]</a></sup> to the point of it being as pitch black as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TrES-2b" class="extiw" title="wp:TrES-2b" rel="nofollow"><span style="color:#477979 !important;" title="Wikipedia: TrES-2b">TrES-2b</span></a>,<sup><img alt="Wikipedia" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/12px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="12" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/18px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/24px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128" /></sup> the darkest planet known to date, since everything that is not at absolute zero (in other words, pretty much <i>everything</i>) emits some sort of radiation it would already have been detected on all-sky infrared surveys — not to mention that gravitational effects, especially of big, <a href="/wiki/Neptune" title="Neptune">Neptune</a>-sized or larger bodies would be quite visible, or that proof of rogue planets roaming across the Solar System would have been detected on the orbital parameters of Solar System bodies, as their gravity would have affected the orbits of the latter.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7">[4]</a></sup> </p><p>Sure, someone may say that <a href="/wiki/NASA" title="NASA">NASA</a>, the <a href="/wiki/NWO" class="mw-redirect" title="NWO">NWO</a>, or whatever are hiding the results of said surveys. While it's true that they're not made immediately available to the public, so scientists in charge of those studies can analyze the results and be the first ones to report what may have been found there, they're released sooner or later on astronomical databases that anyone can access as <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/">SIMBAD</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8">[note 4]</a></sup> Not to mention the many professional observatories located in countries outside US, and especially the whole lot of amateur astronomers that explore the sky looking for asteroids, (super)novae, comets etc., often equipped with gear professionals would envy, and who being scattered all over the world are far away from NASA's evil clutches especially on this world with Internet and instant communications. Even if it came at a highly inclined angle respect to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ecliptic" class="extiw" title="wp:ecliptic" rel="nofollow"><span style="color:#477979 !important;" title="Wikipedia: ecliptic">ecliptic</span></a>,<sup><img alt="Wikipedia" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/12px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="12" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/18px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/24px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128" /></sup> where nobody expect those things to be, it would be caught sooner or later.<sup id="cite_ref-nonibiru_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nonibiru-9">[5]</a></sup> </p><p>A planet cannot be seen from just a small location of <a href="/wiki/Earth" title="Earth">Earth</a> (say, the <a href="/wiki/Neumayer_Station" title="Neumayer Station">South Pole</a>), as even polar constellations can be seen from large areas of the planet (a <a href="/wiki/Flat_Earth" title="Flat Earth">Flat Earth</a> would be another thing). Plus, the "it's coming from the opposite side of the Sun" excuse, while it can work for small Solar System objects as nearby asteroids, it cannot work for large bodies coming from very far away as said planet, as if one applies the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kepler%27s_laws_of_planetary_motion" class="extiw" title="wp:Kepler's laws of planetary motion" rel="nofollow"><span style="color:#477979 !important;" title="Wikipedia: Kepler's laws of planetary motion">Kepler's laws</span></a><sup><img alt="Wikipedia" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/12px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="12" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/18px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/24px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128" /></sup> using Nibiru's given orbital period (3,600 years) finds that it would move so slowly that the part of the sky opposite to the Sun would be visible first just after dawn and later all the night, even if it was very close to us (no, a <a href="/wiki/Geocentrism" title="Geocentrism">geocentric</a> model does not work here too),<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10">[6]</a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Magic" title="Magic">unless it was a body that did not obey the laws of physics</a>. </p><p>Remember also that Earth is a <i>very</i> small target compared to the immensity of the Solar System. While a rogue, planet-sized body could mess up its orbit (something <i>very bad</i> for our health) if it came close enough, the possibilities of it colliding with our planet are very small. </p><p>Nibiru's orbit has a very big issue: namely that an orbit so eccentric is unstable due to gravitational perturbations of the four giant planets of the <a href="/wiki/Solar_System" title="Solar System">Solar System</a>, and within a few million years it would have either been expelled of the Solar System or would have crashed into either any other planet or into the very <a href="/wiki/Sun" title="Sun">Sun</a>, and was it a brown dwarf instead, it would have left a <b>huge</b> mess behind.<sup id="cite_ref-nonibiru_9-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nonibiru-9">[5]</a></sup> </p><p>Some claimed "images" of Nibiru are actually pictures of distant bodies (lots of light-years away) as <a href="/wiki/CW_Leonis" title="CW Leonis">CW Leonis</a> or <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V838_Monocerotis" class="extiw" title="wp:V838 Monocerotis" rel="nofollow"><span style="color:#477979 !important;" title="Wikipedia: V838 Monocerotis">V838 Monocerotis</span></a>'s<sup><img alt="Wikipedia" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/12px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="12" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/18px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/24px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128" /></sup> outburst, which should give a hint about the knowledge of astronomy of the claimants and/or their <a href="/wiki/Intellectual_honesty" title="Intellectual honesty">honesty</a>. Same for those who claim to have photographed or recorded it in video very close to the Sun, but that the only thing they caught was lens flare, as in the image of above.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11">[note 5]</a></sup> Other cranks have confounded it with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planet_Nine" class="extiw" title="wp:Planet Nine" rel="nofollow"><span style="color:#477979 !important;" title="Wikipedia: Planet Nine">Planet Nine</span></a>,<sup><img alt="Wikipedia" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/12px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="12" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/18px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/24px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128" /></sup> ignoring that its existence is entirely hypothetical as of the time of this writing, and even if it was real, it's estimated that it would never approach to the Sun closer than roughly six times the Sun-Neptune distance. </p><p>Oh, and the less is said of the use of what looks like a <a href="/wiki/Book_of_Revelation" title="Book of Revelation">highly symbolic report of a very bad trip and/or Anti-Roman propaganda disguised that way</a> written 2,000 years ago as a source for claims, the better. </p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="See_also">See also</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Nibiru&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: See also">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_predictions_of_the_end_of_the_world" title="List of predictions of the end of the world">List of predictions of the end of the world</a></li></ul> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="External_links">External links</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Nibiru&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: External links">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.2012hoax.org/nibiru">Nibiru</a>, 2012hoax.org</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/archive.cgi?read=7553">NIBURU: MORE FACT THAN FICTION!?</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.altheadlines.com/nibiru/">Nibiru Resources</a></li></ul> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Notes">Notes</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Nibiru&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Notes">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <div class="references-small" style="font-size:90%;"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-1">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Sitchin published his ideas before the "demotion" of <a href="/wiki/Pluto" title="Pluto">Pluto</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-4">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/List_of_predictions_of_the_end_of_the_world#21st_century" title="List of predictions of the end of the world">Epic Fail</a> <i>four times</i> (scroll down to 2017 and for a bonus check also 2018).<sup>[<i>citation NOT needed</i>]</sup></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-6">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">A black hole may be almost invisible, but its gravitational effects on other Solar System bodies would be quite visible</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-8">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Granted, they're databases thought for professional astronomers, and your typical science-hater Fundie/crank will be as lost there as a turtle at a Formula 1 race.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-11">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/YouTube" title="YouTube">YouTube</a> is <i>awash</i> with videos of that kind.</span> </li> </ol></div></div> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="References">References</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Nibiru&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: References">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <div class="references-small" style="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2; font-size:80%;"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-2">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/01/05/will-the-mysterious-shadow-planet-nibiru-obliterate-earth-in-october-no/?utm_term=.5a7994af3c7c&wpisrc=nl_mix&wpmm=1">Will the mysterious shadow planet Nibiru obliterate Earth in October? No.</a> by Ben Guarino (January 5 at 5:25 AM) <i>Washington Post</i>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-3">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><i>Planet X — The 2017 Arrival</i> by David Meade (2016) Ebookit.com. ISBN 1456626922.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-5">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2017/10/29/armageddon-predicted-by-christian-numerologist-delayed-for-second-time/">Armageddon Predicted by Christian Numerologist Delayed (For Second Time)</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-7">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1988AJ.....96.1127M">Limits on the closest encounter with any other star since the formation of our solar system</a>. Neptune's orbit has an eccentricity so low that it's almost a circle and it as well as the ones of the outer planets is very little inclined respect to the plane of the Solar System, putting strict limits to the visits of rogue planets wandering across the Solar System, not to mention stars</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-nonibiru-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">↑ <sup><a href="#cite_ref-nonibiru_9-0">5.0</a></sup> <sup><a href="#cite_ref-nonibiru_9-1">5.1</a></sup></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://debunkingdoomsday.quora.com/Debunked-Nibiru-will-hit-Earth-on-Insert-Date-here">Debunked: Nibiru will hit Earth on [Insert Date here</a>]</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-10">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.vofoundation.org/blog/nibiru-kepler-basics-orbits/">Nibiru, Kepler, and some basics on orbits</a>. 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