- Pluto was discovered by looking at anomalies in the orbits of Uranus and Neptune - but turned out it wasn't heavy enough to explain them. Eventually this was all sorted out in 1993 when analysis of Voyager's flyby of Neptune lead to a reduction in the estimated mass of Neptune - which made everything add up.
- Nemesis is the name of a star that was hypothesized to bring more comets than usual into the inner solar system every 26 million years. Next time this was hypothesized to happen is eleven million years ago. Searches showed that it doesn't exist.
- Then Tyche was a new name for "Nemesis's good sister" - no longer hypothesized to bring comets into the inner solar system because it would be in a near circular orbit. It too was shown not to exist.
- Astronomers now think there might be a planet about the size of Mars or Earth orbiting around 50 au or so away from Earth to explain the Kuiper Cliff drop off of numbers of dwarf planets when you'd expect an increase. A bit like Saturn's rings shepherding moons. This is still on the cards as a possible extra planet - but would orbit permanently in a circular orbit again well beyond Pluto, and would never even come closer to Pluto.
- They've mixed these ideas up, reduced the length of the 26 million years of Nemesis to 3600 years, ignored the searches that proved it doesn't exist, turned it into a planet, and changed it from a star that always orbits well beyond Pluto into one that comes into the inner solar system inside of Earth's orbit. And then added absurd details such as that it's orbited by a planet Nibiru inhabited by extra terrestrials that can interbreed with us (as absurd as a koala bear interbreeding with a gorilla).
- Then they also add the absurd idea that it can hide behind the sun, to explain why astronomers haven't found it yet, not realizing that even Mercury is visible in the dawn and dusk sky so anything close enough to not be visible in the night sky has to orbit the sun in much less than 88 days.
- They think it can hide behind the sun for years on end, and then suddenly come out and hit Earth within a month or two. And that it is a heavy object that somehow got behind the sun without disturbing the orbits of any of the other planets or asteroids in any way at all. And that it doesn't disturb the orbit of Mercury either.
- For anyone with even a little astronomical background, this whole thing is all LOL silly
I'm talking here about the astronomical history - the genuine searches behind it, and why their astronomy is so silly.
Not about the Sumerian myths and misconceptions of them. Seems it had many uses, and that it may be it was sometimes used to refer to Jupiter for instance, may be other things such as a crossing of a river, could possibly have been applied to the pole star. A rare word in the texts. But never means a planet beyond Pluto (if you go by the usual translations) - can't have anyway, they didn't even know of the existence or Uranus or Neptune never mind Pluto.
For those see Sitchin is wrong.com and Nibiru cataclysm. But it's not something I feel qualified to talk about.
The astronomy at any rate is just totally LOL silly. As Brian Cox said, this "Imaginary Bullshit Planet".
For more on this, see
which is also available to read for free as my science20 blog post. "Imaginary Bullshit Planet" Nibiru - Lens Flares, Sun Mirages, Hoaxes & Just Plain Silly
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