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Robert Walker

No. Summary - another doomsday story about Nibiru which shares many of the misconceptions floating around on the internet. He just repeats them and makes no attempt to check if they are true or not.

He thinks that the gravitational pull of the Earth is so great that an approaching entire solar system will be diverted into a loop around Earth, and he thinks that a planet approaching from the South would only be visible in a plane flying high above South America (for some reason) and lots of other nonsense things.

There is nothing here to be scared about.

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This is yet another Nibiru story, publicized in

The journalists who write these stories clearly don't run them past anyone with any credentials in astronomy or science. Cross them off your list of news sites that provide reliable information on astronomy.

It publicizes the book by David Meade: Planet X - The 2017 Arrival I’ll just cover the part of his book that you can read with “look inside” as there is plenty there to debunk already, and the summary of his ideas in Sun magazine

For instance he says that the Vatican operates the Large Binocular Telescope

For debunking see Debunked: The Vatican built a huge telescope, one of the largest in the world, to track Nibiru

He says that Melissa Huffman’s video is of planet X.

For debunking see Debunked: Melissa Huffman did a video of Planet X

He says that the IRAS satellite spotted Nibiru. See Debunked: The IRAS infrared satellite found Nibiru in 1983

He says that Nibiru is only visible in the infrared spectrum. Brown dwarfs are easy to detect in infrared light, even if they are far from any star because they are warm (at least compared to interstellar space) - but that doesn’t make them invisible in ordinary light. That’s like saying that you are invisible because you are warm.

The darkest brown dwarf would be as bright as Betelgeuse at the distance of Jupiter and easily visible in telescopes way beyond Neptune. For details see Debunked: Nibiru is invisible because it is a brown dwarf or made of dark matter

He says it can’t be seen because it is approaching from the south.

“There is no hiding this incoming solar system any longer! It consists of a dark star, smaller than our sun, which hosts seven orbiting bodies, some smaller than our moon and a couple of them larger than our Earth. The dark star is called “Nemesis” or “Planet X.” The blue planet is called the “Blue Kachina.” The planet that is larger than Earth that is orbiting the dark star is called “Nibiru.” It is also known as “The Planet of the Crossing” and the “Destroyer.” There is another object – some refer to it as “Helion.”

“This system is, of course, not aligned with our solar system’s ecliptic, but is coming to us from an oblique angle and toward our South Pole. This makes observations difficult, unless you’re flying at a high altitude over South America with an excellent camera. As it intertwines and approaches it, will come from our south and loop all the way to the extreme north, then come back south again as it exits our orbital path.”

Overwhelming evidence for the 2017 arrival of Planet X / Nibiru

If a comet say, was approaching us from the south, would mean it is easy to see throughout the southern hemisphere. Indeed if it comes from due south, then you can see it all night every night all year round from the southern hemisphere, so long as there is a clear night. So approaching from south or north makes an object easier to see, not harder to see, so long as you live in the appropriate hemisphere and of course there are large numbers of people in the southern hemisphere :)..

This shows an almost total ignorance of astronomy and suggests he has never paid much attention to the real night sky. There isn't any hidden direction that things can come to us from, not the size of a planet never mind a solar system. The Cheliyabinsk meteorite could appear with no warning but that's because it is only 20 meters in diameter.

He also seems to think that Earth’s gravitational pull is so great that a star with several planets orbiting it approaching Earth would be diverted into a loop — the loop around Earth.

His September alignment is a very rough one, that all the planets are so close to the sun that they are impossible or hard to see. Not one that astronomers would pay much attention to. Not even as a "pretty sight" as you can't see it. And they aren't particularly close. The alignment of the Sun with the Moon is of significance because they cause tides and we get our largest tides at new and full Moon every two weeks, the "spring tides". None of the planets are close enough to cause tides and their alignments are of no significance. For details see: Debunked - an alignment of the visible planets behind the sun on 23rd September 2017 is a sign of the end of the world. by Robert Walker on Debunking Doomsday

Debunked: A planet in a 3600 year orbit can hide behind the sun for years on end

And for the reasons why a planet in such an orbit is impossible anyway see my Debunked: Nibiru will hit Earth on [Insert Date here]

You can be sure if anyone says something like this in all seriousness that they don't have a decent background in science. They don't understand concepts that you would cover already in any decent high school physics / science course. These are ideas that can be explained even to a very young child with an interest in science indeed,

See also my Nibiru Bullshit Tester - How to check if they know anything about astronomy

This is a copy of Debunked: Nibiru will hit or fly past Earth in September (or October or November) 2017 - David Meade’s “prophecy” by Robert Walker on Debunking Doomsday

About the Author

Robert Walker

Robert Walker

Writer of articles on Mars and Space issues - Software Developer of Tune Smithy, Bounce Metronome etc.
Studied at Wolfson College, Oxford
Lives in Isle of Mull
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