A Hitchhiker’s Guide to Nibiru
YOWUSA.COM, February 16, 2001
Josef Novak
In his article “Did Planet X Kill The Dinosaurs?” Marshall Masters examined the possibility that an XBKO flyby may have triggered a terrestrial catastrophe and caused the extinction of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. Then Steve Russell and Jacco van der Worp pointed to current day astronomical observations that suggest another XKBO is headed towards Earth at this very moment, in their article “Is a Killer XKBO Stalking The Earth?” And then of course there is Nibiru, Zecharia Sitchin and the Sumerians. Confused yet?
If you are just getting interested in this whole topic but your head is beginning to swim, take heart. When you are finished reading this article, you’ll know enough to hold your own at the neighborhood pub, or you may just be intrigued enough to delve deeper into this fascinating subject. Either way, A Hitchhiker’s Guide to Nibiru will get you there.
Is Nibiru Science Fiction or Science Fact?
This journey begins in 1950, before our present day understanding of Nibiru, with Immanuel Velikovsky who published a highly controversial book titled, Worlds in Collision, and who happened to correspond on a regular basis with Albert Einstein.
According to Velikovsky, a large comet flew past the earth some 3,500 years ago, and then again 700 years later. The comet flyby caused great cataclysms on the earth, before the comet eventually became the planet Venus.
At the time American scientists scorned his work, because it challenged their Newtonian (things just don’t change) view of the universe. The most notable critic was the famous American astronomer Carl Sagan.
Yet, despite Sagan’s mean-spirited attacks on Velikovsky, his work still endures to this day, in much the same way the Nikola Tesla has became a cult hero despite decades of well-funded and equally vicious attacks on his character and his contributions by Thomas Edison.
Oddly enough, no matter how much respected men like Sagan and Edison tried to besmirch the reputations and works of Velikovsky and Tesla, they failed. Partly because Velikovsky and Tesla were genuine in the love for mankind, and also in part because their ideas continue to resonate with us to this very day.
In the present time, a brilliant scholar by the name of Zecharia Sitchin is also showing his love for mankind, with theories based on his study of the Sumerian civilization.
But most importantly, they left us a clear warning of a planet called Nibiru (Also known as Planet X) that could fly past the inner planets of our solar system in the coming years, and bring horrific death and destruction to our planet as it has done before.
Could Velikovsky have mistaken his large comet for Planet X? Is Nibiru really Planet X or is it something else? These questions point to one simple problem – deriving a modern day context from ancient manuscripts.
When you combine this language difficulty with the Newtonian prejudice of present day scientists, it is no wonder that the theories of Velikovsky and Sitchin have been gruffly discounted as science fiction. After all, how could something as large as a planet or a moon be orbiting our solar system in the primitive icy debris beyond the orbit of Pluto? Harrumph. Balderdash. Pure nonsense. Right? Wrong.
Our Newtonian view of the solar system shared by our present day scientists got tossed on its head in the summer of 2001.
Discovery News, July 3, 2001
Large Object Discovered Orbiting Sun
The discovery of a large reddish chunk of something orbiting in Pluto's neighborhood has re-ignited the idea that there may be more than nine planets in the solar system.
What the discoverers are calling 2001 KX76 might be one of the largest "Kuiper Belt Objects" or KBO's, found in what is essentially a second asteroid belt beyond the orbit of Neptune. Initial reports give 2001 KX76 a diameter of 900 to 1200 kilometers — roughly the size of Pluto's moon, Charon. Pluto itself, it should be noted, is smaller than our own moon.
Because KBOs are believed to have very elongated orbits around the sun they spend a lot of time on dark, centuries-long excursions into deep space. That makes them very hard to find, said astronomer Robert Millis, director of the Lowell Observatory, which was involved in the discovery.
If 2001 KX76 is any indication of larger KBOs out there, it might also lead to the demotion of Pluto from puniest planet to king of KBOs, said Marsden.
Millis prefers a third alternative: "There may exist a new class of planets."
