In 2003, the name Nibiru appeared for the first time in the world. This name, after 11 years, became synonymous with the harbinger of the apocalypse. The last time its name was heard was in 2017, and according to theories, it was a planet with an orbit that would take 3 thousand 600 years to move around the Sun and create instabilities within the solar system. With just a few trips, its gravity would have disturbed the other planets, whose gravitational forces would have significantly changed Nibiru’s orbit.
Nibiru, the Planet That Almost Ended Up 5 Times with the Earth
In 1976, The Story of Nibiru was published, a book that talked about the presence of this strange planet. In addition, in the same year, another book called The Twelfth Planet by Zecharia Sitchin was released. In that work, Sitchin talked about the translation of ancient Sumerian cuneiform texts, which revealed the existence of a planet beyond Neptune: Nibiru, which orbits the Sun every 3,600 years.
As a result of this text, all kinds of conspiracy theories were started, assuring that Nibiru would collide with the Earth and would provoke the end of humanity, associated with this theory several dates assured the impact of Nibiru on the Earth, but it got too close to the Sun and disintegrated.
In the beginning, the theory that defended the existence of Nibiru assured that the catastrophe would occur in May 2003. However, nothing happened. Its followers made a new interpretation showing that it would be in December 2012, according to a connection with the end of one of the cycles of the Mayan calendar.
Following rumors and fake news on this controversial subject, NASA officials issued a statement confirming that no large planet would destroy Earth in 2012. In any case, the appearance of the comet Elenin in 2011 was one of the events that was related to the presence of Nibiru. This led many to believe that it was an enigmatic planet.
But that did not end there, for years later, other conspiracy theorists began to claim that Nibiru, or Planet X, would collide with Earth on September 23, 2017. However, to date, the planet Earth has not been hit by any other planet.
The Connection to the Solar System’s 9 Planets
While there is debate about whether the Solar System harbors a hidden Planet 9 beyond the orbit of Neptune, according to California Institute of Technology planetary astronomy professor Mike Brown, if Nibiru were in the elongated orbit described by fanatics, we would have seen it by now. But more importantly, it wouldn’t have been there for long.
“If the planet had the orbit attributed to it, it would only last about a million years before it got too close to Jupiter and was ejected from the solar system,” he wrote on his Web site.
What, perhaps, Mike Brown wanted to point out, is that if a planet with a 3,600-year orbit were to impact Earth, it should be in plain sight. Its brightness would be brighter than the faintest stars seen from a city, and almost as bright as Mars at its faintest. This would have made it visible to astronomers around the world. But, for the moment, it has not been discovered.
This story was written in Spanish by Perla Vallejo in Ecoosfera
