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Please research the article's assertions. Whatever is credible should be sourced, and what is not should be removed. </p> </td></tr></tbody></table> <table class="infobox" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" style="float: right; margin: 0 0 0.5em 0.5em; text-align:left; border: 1px solid #505050; width:175px;"> <tbody><tr> <td style="font-size: 95%; text-align:center; color:White; background-color:#505050"><b>The fault in our stars</b><br /><a class="mw-selflink selflink"><font size="3" color="White"><b>Pseudoastronomy</b></font></a> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background-color:#FFFFFF;" align="center"><a href="/wiki/Category:Pseudoastronomy" title="Category:Pseudoastronomy"><img alt="Icon pseudoastronomy.svg" src="/w/images/thumb/7/78/Icon_pseudoastronomy.svg/100px-Icon_pseudoastronomy.svg.png" decoding="async" width="100" height="100" srcset="/w/images/thumb/7/78/Icon_pseudoastronomy.svg/150px-Icon_pseudoastronomy.svg.png 1.5x, /w/images/thumb/7/78/Icon_pseudoastronomy.svg/200px-Icon_pseudoastronomy.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="200" data-file-height="200" /></a> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 95%; color:White; background-color:#505050; text-align:center;"><b><a href="/wiki/Adding_epicycles" title="Adding epicycles"><font color="white">Adding epicycles</font></a></b> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 95%; background-color:#FFFFFF;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Geocentrism" title="Geocentrism">Geocentrism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cellular_cosmogony" title="Cellular cosmogony">Cellular cosmogony</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mike_Bara" title="Mike Bara">Mike Bara</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ufology" title="Ufology">Ufology</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Flat_Earth_debunks_-_The_Earth" title="Flat Earth debunks - The Earth">Flat Earth debunks - The Earth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Flat_Earth_debunks_-_The_Moon" title="Flat Earth debunks - The Moon">Flat Earth debunks - The Moon</a></li></ul> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 95%; color:White; background-color:#505050; text-align:center;"><b>Epicyclists</b> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 95%; background-color:#FFFFFF;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Jeffrey_Wolynski" title="Jeffrey Wolynski">Jeffrey Wolynski</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zecharia_Sitchin" title="Zecharia Sitchin">Zecharia Sitchin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/David_Talbott" title="David Talbott">David Talbott</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ted_Holden" title="Ted Holden">Ted Holden</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fixedearth.com" title="Fixedearth.com">Fixedearth.com</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_W._Felix" title="Robert W. Felix">Robert W. Felix</a></li></ul> <div class="vte plainlinks" style="font-size:smaller; text-align:center;"><a href="/wiki/Template:Pseudoastronomy" title="Template:Pseudoastronomy">v</a> - <a href="/wiki/Template_talk:Pseudoastronomy" title="Template talk:Pseudoastronomy">t</a> - <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://rationalwiki.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Pseudoastronomy&action=edit">e</a></div> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Pseudoastronomy</b> (not to be confused with <a href="/wiki/Astrology" title="Astrology">astrology</a>) is a subset of pseudophysics that claims to have found additional astronomical bodies, different ways of forming/developing astronomical bodies, different <a href="/wiki/Physics" title="Physics">physics</a> of the Universe, or just straight-up doom-mongering. And of course, <a href="/wiki/YEC" class="mw-redirect" title="YEC">creationists</a> have found many very scientific-sounding ways to explain away problems in their 6,000-year-old <a href="/wiki/Earth" title="Earth">Earth</a>. </p><p>Many of these pseudoastronomical claims fall into the category of "<a href="/wiki/Earth_changes" title="Earth changes">Earth changes</a>", which is as vague as it is <a href="/wiki/Apocalyptic" class="mw-redirect" title="Apocalyptic">apocalyptic</a>. </p><p>None of these theories are scientifically supported. </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="#Additional_astronomical_bodies"><span class="tocnumber">1</span> <span class="toctext">Additional astronomical bodies</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2"><a href="#Different_formation.2Fdevelopment_methods"><span class="tocnumber">2</span> <span class="toctext">Different formation/development methods</span></a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-3"><a href="#Planetary"><span class="tocnumber">2.1</span> <span class="toctext">Planetary</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-4"><a href="#Lunar"><span class="tocnumber">2.2</span> <span class="toctext">Lunar</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-5"><a href="#Solar"><span class="tocnumber">2.3</span> <span class="toctext">Solar</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-6"><a href="#Universal"><span class="tocnumber">2.4</span> <span class="toctext">Universal</span></a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-7"><a href="#Alternate_physics"><span class="tocnumber">3</span> <span class="toctext">Alternate physics</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-8"><a href="#Doom-mongering"><span class="tocnumber">4</span> <span class="toctext">Doom-mongering</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-9"><a href="#Creationism"><span class="tocnumber">5</span> <span class="toctext">Creationism</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-10"><a href="#People"><span class="tocnumber">6</span> <span class="toctext">People</span></a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-11"><a href="#Promoters"><span class="tocnumber">6.1</span> <span class="toctext">Promoters</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-12"><a href="#Skeptics"><span class="tocnumber">6.2</span> <span class="toctext">Skeptics</span></a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-13"><a href="#See_also"><span class="tocnumber">7</span> <span class="toctext">See also</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-14"><a href="#External_links"><span class="tocnumber">8</span> <span class="toctext">External links</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-15"><a href="#Notes"><span class="tocnumber">9</span> <span class="toctext">Notes</span></a></li> </ul> </div> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Additional_astronomical_bodies">Additional astronomical bodies</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pseudoastronomy&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Additional astronomical bodies">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Planet_X" title="Planet X">Planet X</a>: A hypothetical <s>tenth</s> <a href="/wiki/Pluto" title="Pluto">ninth</a> <a href="/wiki/Planet" title="Planet">planet</a>. It's used in a wide variety of pseudoastronomy, so claims about its nature are inconsistent.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nibiru" title="Nibiru">Nibiru</a>: Like Planet X, but more <a href="/wiki/Zecharia_Sitchin" title="Zecharia Sitchin">Zecharia Sitchin</a>-y.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Herc%C3%B3lubus" title="Hercólubus">Hercólubus</a>: A giant planet that will fly by Earth, cause volcanoes to erupt and kill everyone in a cataclysm. The only solution is <a href="/wiki/Astral_projection" class="mw-redirect" title="Astral projection">astral projection</a>.</li> <li><s>Nuitari</s> <a href="/wiki/Lilith_(pseudoastronomy)" title="Lilith (pseudoastronomy)">Lilith</a>, a claimed second moon of <s>Ansalon</s> Earth so dark that it is invisible.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vulcan" title="Vulcan">Vulcan</a>: no, not Mr. Spock's home, but an alleged planet further into the Sun than Mercury.</li></ul> <h2><span id="Different_formation/development_methods"></span><span class="mw-headline" id="Different_formation.2Fdevelopment_methods">Different formation/development methods</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pseudoastronomy&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Different formation/development methods">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Planetary">Planetary</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pseudoastronomy&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Planetary">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h3> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Flat_Earth" title="Flat Earth">Flat Earth</a>: The Earth is flat. What holds it up?<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1">[note 1]</a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Fun:Scientific_Geoterrapinism" title="Fun:Scientific Geoterrapinism">Nobody knows!</a> Promoted by <a href="/wiki/B.o.B" title="B.o.B">B.o.B</a> and <a href="/wiki/Flat_Earth_Society_(website)" title="Flat Earth Society (website)">the Flat Earth Society</a> among others.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hollow_Earth" title="Hollow Earth">Hollow Earth</a>: The Earth is hollow. Something weird is inside (maybe <a href="/wiki/Extraterrestrial" title="Extraterrestrial">aliens</a>/<a href="/wiki/Crystals" title="Crystals">crystals</a>/<a href="/wiki/Nazis" class="mw-redirect" title="Nazis">Nazis</a>) and the <a href="/wiki/Government" title="Government"> GOVERNMENT</a> IS COVERING IT UP!<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2">[note 2]</a></sup> Promoted by <a href="/wiki/Ernst_Z%C3%BCndel" title="Ernst Zündel">Ernst Zündel</a> and <a href="/wiki/Richard_Shaver" title="Richard Shaver">Richard Shaver</a>, among others.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Expanding_Earth" title="Expanding Earth">Expanding Earth</a>: The Earth is expanding. Originally the scientific consensus, now inhabited by <a href="/wiki/Cranks" class="mw-redirect" title="Cranks">cranks</a> alone.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Atlantis" title="Atlantis">Atlantis</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lemuria" title="Lemuria">Lemuria</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Mu" title="Mu">Mu</a>: Lost continents with lost civilizations that fell to the ocean floor. How this didn't radically affect sea levels worldwide is a question we can't answer.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3">[note 3]</a></sup></li> <li>The idea that there was a planet between Mars and Jupiter that was destroyed and formed the asteroid belt.</li></ul> <h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Lunar">Lunar</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pseudoastronomy&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Lunar">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h3> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Hollow_Moon" title="Hollow Moon">Hollow Moon</a>. The <a href="/wiki/Moon" title="Moon">Moon</a> is hollow and actually an alien spaceship parked in Earth orbit. <a href="/wiki/NASA" title="NASA">NASA</a> of course hides it. <a href="/wiki/WAKE_UP" class="mw-redirect" title="WAKE UP">WAKE UP</a></li></ul> <h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Solar">Solar</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pseudoastronomy&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Solar">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h3> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Stellar_metamorphosis" title="Stellar metamorphosis">Stellar metamorphosis</a>: <a href="/wiki/Star" title="Star">Stars</a> are planets. <s>Creat</s>Advocated by <a href="/wiki/Jeffrey_Wolynski" title="Jeffrey Wolynski">Jeffrey Wolynski</a>.</li> <li>Solar fission: The sun initially formed without planets, then flung the planets off in pairs. Theorized by Thomas Van Flandern.</li> <li>Solar binary: The Sun is a binary, its companion being an <a href="/wiki/Invisible_Pink_Unicorn" title="Invisible Pink Unicorn"> invisible brown dwarf</a>.</li></ul> <h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Universal">Universal</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pseudoastronomy&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Universal">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h3> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Cellular_cosmogony" title="Cellular cosmogony">Cellular cosmogony</a>: The Earth's surface is the inside surface of a sphere. The entire Universe fits within this sphere, because of gravitational distortion. Right.</li></ul> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Alternate_physics">Alternate physics</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pseudoastronomy&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Alternate physics">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Geocentrism" title="Geocentrism">Geocentrism</a>: The Earth is the center of the Universe. Promoted by <i><a href="/wiki/Galileo_Was_Wrong,_The_Church_Was_Right" title="Galileo Was Wrong, The Church Was Right">Galileo Was Wrong, The Church Was Right</a></i> and <a href="/wiki/Robert_Sungenis" title="Robert Sungenis">Robert Sungenis</a> among others.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Galactocentricity" title="Galactocentricity">Galactocentricity</a>: The <a href="/wiki/Milky_Way" title="Milky Way">Milky Way</a> is the center of the Universe. (Note that both geocentrism and galactocentrism cannot both be correct, since the Earth is not the center of the Milky Way.)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fixedearth.com" title="Fixedearth.com">Fixedearth.com</a>: The Earth doesn't move.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Electric_Universe" title="Electric Universe">Electric Universe</a>: Electromagnetism > <a href="/wiki/Gravity" title="Gravity">gravity</a>.</li> <li>Hyperdimensional physics: This fantasy was pseudo-elucidated by <a href="/wiki/Richard_Hoagland" title="Richard Hoagland">Richard Hoagland</a> and <a href="/wiki/Mike_Bara" title="Mike Bara">Mike Bara</a> in their book <i>Dark Mission</i> (2007). One tenet of the faith is that all energy originates from a "higher state" outside three-dimensional space.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Welteislehre" class="mw-redirect" title="Welteislehre">Welteislehre</a>, Nazi pseudoscience</li></ul> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Doom-mongering">Doom-mongering</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pseudoastronomy&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Doom-mongering">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Geomagnetism" title="Geomagnetism">Geomagnetism</a>: A geomagnetic reversal will end civilization and/or <a href="/wiki/Life" title="Life">life</a> as we know it! Discount the previous 170-171 times this has happened in the past 76 million years!</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pole_shift" title="Pole shift">Pole shift</a>: Earth will flip over, and human civilization will flip its shit.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Comet_Elenin" title="Comet Elenin">Comet Elenin</a>: <s>It's gonna fuck shit up.</s>Oh wait... it passed by harmlessly and then disintegrated. Never mind.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/CW_Leonis" title="CW Leonis">CW Leonis</a>: It's <i>obviously</i> <a href="/wiki/Nibiru" title="Nibiru">Nibiru</a> and/or <a href="/wiki/Comet_Elenin" title="Comet Elenin">Comet Elenin</a> and/or impending doom!</li></ul> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Creationism">Creationism</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pseudoastronomy&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Creationism">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Lunar_bukkake_hypothesis" title="Lunar bukkake hypothesis">Lunar bukkake hypothesis</a>: The <a href="/wiki/Great_Flood" class="mw-redirect" title="Great Flood">Great Flood</a> shot water into the <a href="/wiki/Moon" title="Moon">Moon</a>, all over the Moon's face. Solves the "why are there craters on the moon if it's 6000 years old" problem.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Catastrophic_plate_tectonics" title="Catastrophic plate tectonics">Catastrophic plate tectonics</a>: The Great Flood screwed up the continents. Solves the "obvious evidence of <a href="/wiki/Plate_tectonics" title="Plate tectonics">plate tectonics</a> disproves a Young Earth" problem.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anisotropic_synchrony_convention" title="Anisotropic synchrony convention">Anisotropic synchrony convention</a>: <a href="/wiki/Light" title="Light">Light</a> travels instantaneously towards you but half the <a href="/wiki/Speed_of_light" title="Speed of light">speed of light</a> away. Solves the <a href="/wiki/Starlight_problem" title="Starlight problem">starlight problem</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/C-decay" title="C-decay">c-decay</a>: Light speed slows down over time. Solves the starlight problem.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/White_hole_cosmology" title="White hole cosmology">White hole cosmology</a>: The Earth is/was in a "white hole" that slows down its time. Solves the starlight problem.</li></ul> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="People">People</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pseudoastronomy&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: People">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Promoters">Promoters</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pseudoastronomy&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Promoters">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h3> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Immanuel_Velikovsky" title="Immanuel Velikovsky">Immanuel Velikovsky</a>: Most of modern physics is wrong, but the <a href="/wiki/Old_Testament" title="Old Testament">Old Testament</a> is obviously true because of "comparative mythology."</li></ul> <dl><dd><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ted_Holden" title="Ted Holden">Ted Holden</a>: Promotes Velikovsky's work.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/David_Talbott" title="David Talbott">David Talbott</a>: Promotes Velikovsky's work.</li></ul></dd></dl> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Maurice_Cotterell" title="Maurice Cotterell">Maurice Cotterell</a>: Claims that the <a href="/wiki/Sun" title="Sun">Sun</a> directly affects female fertility, civilizational rise and fall, and <a href="/wiki/Human" title="Human">human</a> life and death.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mike_Bara" title="Mike Bara">Mike Bara</a>: Among Bara's many mistaken ideas about astronomy, he's a proponent of solar fission--which was a favorite of the maverick astronomer Thomas Van Flandern.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stephen_J._Crothers" title="Stephen J. Crothers">Stephen J. Crothers</a>: Rejects most of modern physics, with a special emphasis on the claim that <a href="/wiki/Black_holes" class="mw-redirect" title="Black holes">black holes</a> do not exist.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_C._Hoagland" class="mw-redirect" title="Richard C. Hoagland">Richard C. Hoagland</a>: Whines about <a href="/wiki/NASA" title="NASA">NASA</a> and finds <a href="/wiki/Pareidolia" title="Pareidolia">weird-looking shit</a> on Mars.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_McCanney" title="James McCanney">James McCanney</a>: Both the Sun and comets are electrically charged. Comets contain no ice whatsoever.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/ZetaTalk" title="ZetaTalk">ZetaTalk</a>: A cult that claims to talk with aliens. Claimed that <a href="/wiki/Nibiru" title="Nibiru">Nibiru</a> would pass Earth in 2003; it didn't.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Time_Cube" title="Time Cube">Time Cube</a>: <a href="/wiki/Gene_Ray" title="Gene Ray">Gene Ray</a>'s idiocy knows no bounds.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/David_Icke" title="David Icke">David Icke</a>: Depending on his mood, claims the Moon is either hollow, an alien spacecraft, an interdimensional portal or doesn't exist at all. He also makes unusual claims about Saturn.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/W._Cleon_Skousen" title="W. Cleon Skousen">W. 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Not your state/provincial/regional government. THE government.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-3">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Well, not unless we postulate a non-Biblical global flood...</span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div role="navigation" aria-labelledby="Articles_on_RationalWiki_related_to_pseudo-studies-navigationbox" class="toccolours" style="clear:both; margin:0.5em 3.5%; text-align:center;"> <div style="margin:0.15em; padding:0.1em; background:#ccccff; font-weight:bold;"><span id="Articles_on_RationalWiki_related_to_pseudo-studies-navigationbox"><b>Articles on RationalWiki related to pseudo-studies</b></span> </div> <div class="hlist" style="font-size: 90%; margin: 0.15em 1.425em;"><a href="/wiki/Pseudoarchaeology" title="Pseudoarchaeology">Pseudoarchaeology</a> - <a class="mw-selflink selflink">Pseudoastronomy</a> - <a href="/wiki/Pseudohistory" title="Pseudohistory">Pseudohistory</a> - <a href="/wiki/Pseudolaw" title="Pseudolaw">Pseudolaw</a> - <a 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