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This article is about the doomsday scenario. For other uses, see Nibiru.
The Nibiru cataclysm is a supposed disastrous
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(either a collision or a near-miss ) which certain groups
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believe will take place in the early 21st century. Believers

in this doomsday event
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encounter between the Earth and a large planetary object
usually refer to this object as
Planet X or Nibiru.
The idea that a planet-sized object
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astronomers and planetary scientists.[2][3]
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The idea was first put forward in 1995 by Nancy
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Lieder,[4][5] founder of the website ZetaTalk. Lieder

describes herself as a contactee with the ability to
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receive messages from extraterrestrials from the Zeta
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star system through an implant in her brain. She
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states that she was chosen to warn mankind that the
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object would sweep through the inner Solar System in
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May 2003 (though that date was later postponed) causing
Pictures of V838 Mon, a star with a light echo

which has expanded over a number of years,
have been presented by some as photographic
evidence of Nibiru[1]
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Earth's imminent collision or

near miss with a giant
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Earth to undergo a physical pole shift that would destroy
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by numerous Internet doomsday groups, most of which

linked
the event to the 2012 phenomenon . The name
"Nibiru" is derived from the works of the ancient
Bahasa Indonesia
astronaut writer Zecharia Sitchin and his interpretations
Bahasa Melayu
of Babylonian and Sumerian mythology; he denied any
connection between his work and various claims of a
coming apocalypse.
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1 Origins
1.1 Zecharia Sitchin and Sumer
2 Scientific rejection
3 Conspiracy theories
4 Misappellations
4.1 Planet X
4.2 Hercolubus
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Astronomy, archaeology
Year
proposed
1995
Original
proponents
Nancy Lieder
Subsequent
proponents
Marshall Masters, Jaysen

Rand, Mark Hazlewood, Pana
Wave
Pseudoscientific concepts
4.3 Nemesis
4.4 Sedna or Eris
4.5 Tyche
4.6 Comet Elenin
4.7 Comet ISON
5 Public reaction
6 Cultural influence
7 See also
8 References
9 External links
Origins
[edit]
The idea of the Nibiru encounter originated with Nancy Lieder,

a Wisconsin woman who claims that as a girl she was
contacted by gray extraterrestrials
called Zetas , who
implanted a communications device in her brain. In 1995, she

founded the website ZetaTalk to disseminate her ideas.[7]
Lieder first came to public attention on Internet newsgroups
during the build-up to Comet HaleBopp's 1997 perihelion .
She stated, claiming to speak as the Zetas,[8]
that "The HaleBopp comet does not exist. It is a fraud, perpetrated by
those
Nancy Lieder
who would have the teeming masses quiescent until it is too

late.
Hale-Bopp is nothing more than a distant star , and will
draw no closer."[9]
She claimed that the Hale-Bopp story was manufactured to distract people from the
imminent arrival of a large planetary object, "Planet X", which would soon pass by Earth and destroy
civilization.[9] After Hale-Bopp's perihelion revealed it as one of the brightest and longest-observed comets
of the last century,[10] Lieder removed the first two sentences of her initial statement from her site, though
they can still be found in Google 's archives.
[9]
Her claims eventually made the New York Times.[11]
Lieder described Planet X as roughly four times the size of the Earth, and said that its closest approach
would occur on May 27, 2003, resulting in the Earth's rotation ceasing for exactly 5.9 terrestrial days. This
would be followed by the Earth's pole destabilising in a pole shift (a physical pole shift, with the Earth's
pole physically moving, rather than a geomagnetic reversal
)
caused by magnetic attraction between the
Earth's core and the magnetism of the passing planet. This in turn would disrupt the Earth's magnetic core
and lead to subsequent displacement of the Earth's crust.[12]
After Lieder, the first person to propagate her Planet X idea was Mark Hazlewood, a former member of the
ZetaTalk community, who in 2001 published a book titled Blindsided: Planet X Passes in 2003. Lieder
would later accuse him of being a confidence trickster.[13] A Japanese cult
called the Pana Wave
Laboratory,
which blocked off roads and rivers with white cloths to protect itself from electromagnetic
attacks, also warned that the world would end in May 2003 after the approach of a tenth planet.[14]
Roughly a week before the supposed arrival of PlanetX in May 2003, Lieder appeared on KROQ-FM radio
in Los Angeles , and advised listeners to put their pets down
in anticipation of the event as she had done.[15]
This led the Fortean Times to conclude that she had put down her dog(s) to save them from further suffering
during the Pole Shift.[16] Later, in a 2004 interview she said that she had euthanized her dog because it was
acting aggressively.[17] After the 2003 date passed without incident, Lieder said that it was merely a "white
lie... to fool the establishment."[18] She refused to disclose the true date, saying that to do so would give
those in power enough time to declare martial law and trap people in cities during the shift, leading to their
deaths.[19]
Though Lieder herself has not specified a new date for the object's return, many groups have
taken up her idea and cited their own dates. One frequently cited date was December 21, 2012. This date
had many apocalyptic associations
, as it was the end of a cycle (baktun ) in the long count in the Mayan
calendar. Several writers published books connecting the encounter with 2012.[20] Despite that date having
passed, many websites still contend that Nibiru/Planet X is en route to Earth.[21]
In 2012, Lieder claimed that U.S. President
Nibiru near the
sun.[22]
Barack Obama futilely attempted to announce the presence of
After 2012, she claimed that several
world leaders
had intended to announce the
presence of Nibiru near the sun on October

20, 2014. Two weeks after the supposed date of announcement,
she claimed that it did not occur because of consternation amongst the establishment.[23]
Zecharia Sitchin and Sumer [edit]

Although Lieder originally referred to the object as "Planet X", it has
become deeply associated with Nibiru, a planet from the works of
ancient astronaut
proponent Zecharia Sitchin , particularly his book The
12th Planet.
According to Sitchin's interpretation of Babylonian
religious texts, which contradicts conclusions reached by credited
scholars on the subject,[24][25] a giant planet (called Nibiru or Marduk )
passes by Earth every 3,600 years and allows its sentient inhabitants to
interact with humanity. These beings, which Sitchin identified with the
Annunaki of Sumerian myth, would become humanity's first gods.[26]
Lieder first made the connection between Nibiru and her Planet X on her
site in 1996 ("Planet X does exist, and it is the 12th Planet, one and the
same.").[27]
However, Sitchin, who died in 2010, denied any connection between his
work and Lieder's claims. In 2007, partly in response to Lieder's
proclamations, Sitchin published a book, The End of Days, which set
Zecharia Sitchin
the time for the last passing of Nibiru by Earth at 556 BC, which would
mean, given the object's supposed 3,600-year orbit, that it would return sometime around AD 2900.[28]
He
did however say that he believed that the Annunaki might return earlier by spaceship, and that the timing of
their return would coincide
with the shift from the astrological Age of Pisces to the Age of Aquarius ,
sometime between 2090 and 2370.[29]
Scientific rejection
[edit]
Astronomers reject the idea of Nibiru, and have made efforts to inform the public that there is no threat to
Earth.[30]
They point out that such an object so close to Earth would be easily visible to the naked eye. A
planet such as Nibiru would create noticeable effects in the orbits of the outer planets.[31]
Some counter this
by claiming that the object has been concealed behind
the Sun for several years, though this would be
geometrically impossible.[20] Most photographs showing "Nibiru" by the Sun are in fact of lens flares , false
images of the Sun created by reflections within the lens.[32]
Astronomer Mike Brown
notes that if this object's orbit were as described, it would only have
lasted in the
Solar System for a million years or so before Jupiter expelled it, and that there is no way another object's
magnetic field could have such an effect on Earth.[33]
Lieder's assertions that the approach of Nibiru would
cause the Earth's
rotation to stop or its axis to shift violate the laws of physics. In his rebuttal of Immanuel
Velikovsky's Worlds in Collision, which made the same claim that the Earth's rotation could be stopped
and then restarted, Carl Sagan

noted that, "the energy required to brake the Earth is not enough to melt it,
although it would result in a noticeable increase in temperature: The oceans would [be] raised to the boiling
point of water... [Also,] how does the Earth get started up again, rotating
at approximately the same rate of
spin? The Earth cannot do it by itself, because of the law of the conservation of angular momentum
In a 2009 interview with the
."[34]
Discovery Channel ,
Mike Brown noted that, while it is not impossible that the
Sun has a distant planetary companion, such an object would have to be lying very far from the observed
regions of the Solar System to have no detectable gravitational effect on the other planets. A Mars-sized
object could lie
undetected at 300AU (10 times the distance of Neptune); a Jupiter-sized object at
30,000AU. To travel 1000AU in two years, an object would need to be moving at 2400km/s faster than
the galactic escape velocity . At that speed, any object would be shot out of the Solar System, and then out
of the Milky Way galaxy into intergalactic space.[35]
Conspiracy theories
[edit]
Many believers in the imminent approach of Planet X/Nibiru accuse NASA of deliberately covering up
visual evidence of its existence.[36] One such accusation involves the
IRAS
infrared space observatory,
launched in 1983. The satellite briefly made headlines due to an "unknown object" that was at first
described as
"possibly as large as the giant planet Jupiter and possibly so close to Earth that it would be
part of this Solar System".[37]
This newspaper article has been cited by proponents of the Nibiru cataclysm,
beginning with Lieder herself, as evidence for the existence of Nibiru.[38]
However, further analysis
revealed that of several initially unidentified objects, nine were distant galaxies and the tenth was "galactic
cirrus"; none were found to be Solar System bodies.[39]
Another accusation frequently made by websites predicting the
collision is that the U.S. government built the South Pole
Telescope (SPT) to track Nibiru's trajectory, and that the object
has been imaged optically.[1]
However, the SPT (which is not
funded by NASA) is a radio telescope, and cannot take optical
images. Its South Pole location was chosen due to the lowhumidity environment, and there is no way an approaching
object could be seen only from the South Pole.
[40]
The
NASA images showing the

expansion of a light echo around V838
Mon, between 2002 and 2004
"picture" of Nibiru posted on YouTube was revealed, in fact, to

be a Hubble image of the expanding
V838
light echo around the star
Mon .[1]
Another conspiracy claim regards a patch of missing data in Google Sky near the constellation of Orion,
which has often been cited as evidence that Nibiru has been redacted .
However, the same region of sky can
still be viewed by thousands of amateur astronomers. A scientist at Google said that the missing data is
due
to a glitch in the stitching software used to piece the images together.[41]
Another piece of claimed evidence drawn from Google Sky is the carbon star CW Leonis , which is the
brightest object in the 10 m infrared sky and is frequently claimed to be Nibiru.[42]
Misappellations
[edit]
Believers in Planet X/Nibiru have given it many names since it was first proposed. All are, in fact, names for
other real, hypothetical or imaginary Solar System objects that bear little resemblance to Nibiru as
described
by Lieder or Sitchin.
Planet X [edit]
Lieder drew the name Planet X from
the hypothetical planet
discrepancies in the orbits of Uranus and Neptune
.[27]
once searched for by astronomers to account for
In 1894, Bostonian astronomer Percival Lowell
became convinced that the planets Uranus and Neptune had slight discrepancies in their orbits. He
concluded that they were being tugged by the gravity of another, more distant planet, which he called
"Planet X".[43] However, nearly a century of searching failed to turn up any evidence for such an object
(Pluto was initially believed to be Planet X, but was later determined to be too small).[44]
In 1992,
astronomer Myles Standish showed that the supposed discrepancies in the planets' orbits were illusory; the
product of an overestimation of the mass of Neptune.[45] Today astronomers accept that Planet X does not
exist.[46]
Hercolubus [edit]
Not to be confused with Helatrobus.
In 1999, New Age author V. M. Rabolu wrote in
Hercolubus or Red Planet that Barnard's star

is actually
a planet known to the ancients as Hercolubus, which purportedly came dangerously close to Earth in the
past, destroying Atlantis , and will come close to Earth again.[47] Lieder subsequently used Rabolu's ideas to
bolster her claims.[48]
Barnard's star has been directly measured to be 5.98 0.003
light years from Earth (35.15 trillion miles).
While it is approaching Earth, Barnard's Star will not make its closest
approach to the Sun until around
11,700 AD, when it will approach to within some 3.8 light-years.[50] This is only slightly closer than the
closest star to the Sun (Proxima Centauri ) lies today.
Nemesis [edit]
Believers in Planet X/Nibiru have often confused it with Nemesis ,[51] a hypothetical star first proposed by
physicist Richard A. Muller. In 1984, Muller postulated that
mass extinctions
were not random, but
appeared to occur in the fossil record

with a loose periodicity that ranged from 26 to 34 million years. He
attributed this supposed pattern to a heretofore undetected companion to

the Sun, either a dim red dwarf or a
brown dwarf ,
lying in an elliptical, 26-million-year orbit. This object, which he named Nemesis, would,
once every 26 million years, pass through the Oort cloud , the shell of over a trillion icy objects believed to
be the source of long-period comets
that orbit at thousands of times Pluto's distance from the Sun.
Nemesis's gravity would then disturb the comets' orbits and send them into the inner Solar System, causing
the Earth to be bombarded. However,
to date no direct evidence of Nemesis has been found.[52]
Though the
idea of Nemesis appears similar to the Nibiru cataclysm, they are, in fact, very different, as Nemesis, if it
existed, would have
an orbital period thousands of times longer, and would never come near Earth itself.[51]
Sedna or Eris [edit]

Still others confuse Nibiru with
and 2005
press
respectively.[53][54]
release,[55]
Sedna or Eris , trans-Neptunian objects discovered by Mike Brown in 2003
However, despite having been described as a "tenth planet" in an early NASA
Eris (provisional designation: 2003 UB313) is now classified as a
slightly more massive than

billionkm from the
Pluto,[56]
Earth.[57]
dwarf planet . Only
Eris has a well-determined orbit that never takes it closer than 5.5
Sedna is slightly smaller than Pluto,
[58]
and never comes closer to Earth than
11.4 billionkm.[59] Mike Brown believes the confusion results from both the real Eris and the imaginary
Nibiru having extremely elliptical orbits .[53]
Tyche [edit]
[60]
[49]
Others have tied it to
Tyche ;
the name proposed by John Matese and Daniel Whitmire of the University
of Louisiana at Lafayette for an object they believe to be influencing the orbits of comets in the Oort
cloud.[61] The name, after the "good sister" of the Greek goddess Nemesis ,
was chosen to distinguish it
from the similar Nemesis hypothesis as, unlike Nemesis (or Nibiru), Matese and Whitmire do not believe
that their object poses a threat to Earth.[62]
Also, this object, if it exists, would, like Nemesis, have an orbit
hundreds of times longer than that proposed for Nibiru, and never come near the inner Solar System.[60] In
2014, NASA announced that the WISE survey had ruled out the existence of Tyche as its proponents had
defined it.[63]
Comet Elenin [edit]

Some associated Nibiru with
Comet Elenin ,[64] a long-period comet discovered by Russian astronomer
Leonid Elenin on December 10, 2010.[65]

On October 16, 2011, Elenin made its closest approach to the
Earth at a
distance of 0.2338AU (34,980,000km; 21,730,000mi),[66][67] which is slightly closer than the
planet Venus .[68]
Nevertheless, in the leadup to its closest approach, claims spread on conspiracy websites
concluded that it was on a collision course, that it
was as large as Jupiter or even a brown dwarf, and even
that the name of the discoverer, Leonid Elenin, was in fact code for ELE, or an Extinction Level Event .[64]
Although the sizes of comets are difficult to determine without close
observation, Comet Elenin is likely to
be less than 10km in diameter.[69] Elenin himself estimates that the
diameter.[70]
comet nucleus is roughly 34km in
This would make it millions of times smaller than the supposed Nibiru. Comet hysteria is not
uncommon.[71]
Attempts have been made to correlate Elenin's alignments with the 2011 Japan earthquake
the 2010 Canterbury earthquake, and 2010 Chile earthquake
;
however, even discounting Elenin's tiny size,
earthquakes are driven by

forces within the earth, and cannot be triggered by the passage of nearby
objects.[72]
In 2011, Leonid Elenin ran a simulation on his blog in which he increased the mass of the comet
to that of a brown dwarf (0.05 solar masses). He demonstrated that its gravity would have caused noticeable
changes in the orbit of Saturn years before its arrival in the inner Solar System.[73]
In August, 2011, Comet Elenin began to disintegrate,
[74][75]
and by the time of its closest approach in
October 2011 the comet was undetected even by large, ground-based telescopes.[76]
Comet ISON [edit]

On 21 September 2012, Vitali Nevski and Artyom Novichonok,
using the International Scientific Optical Network of telescopes
(ISON), discovered the comet C/2012 S1 , popularly known as
"Comet ISON".[78] Its orbit was expected to take it within
0.429AU (64,200,000km; 39,900,000mi) of Earth on 26
December 2013.[66]
Nonetheless, believers tied it to the Nibiru
cataclysm, claiming it would hit the Earth on that date, or that it
would fragment and pieces of it would hit the Earth.[21] Images
of the "fragments" of the comet circulating on the internet were
shown to be camera artifacts.[21] On April 30, 2013, the Hubble
A composite image of Comet

ISON,[77] which generated a number of
UFO claims.
Space Telescope took three pictures of the comet over the

course of 12 hours, which were published as a composite in
Hubble's archives.[79] This led to speculation on conspiracy sites that the comet had split into 3 pieces, or
even that it was a UFO.[80]
After ISON passed perihelion on 28 November, it rapidly began to fade, leaving
many to suspect that it had been destroyed as it passed the Sun.
While a dim remnant did eventually return
round the Sun, it was generally accepted to be a cloud of dust, rather than a solid object.[81] On 2 December
2013, the CIOC (NASA Comet ISON Observing Campaign) officially announced that Comet ISON had
fully disintegrated.[82][83] The Hubble Space Telescope

2013.[84]
On
failed to detect fragments of ISON on 18 December
8 May 2014, a detailed examination of the comet disintegration was published, suggesting that
the comet fully disintegrated hours before perihelion .[77]
Public reaction
[edit]
The impact of the public fear of the Nibiru cataclysm has been especially felt by professional astronomers.
In 2008, Mike Brown said that Nibiru was the most common pseudoscientific topic he was asked
about.[33]
Before his retirement after 2012,
David Morrison , director of SETI , CSI Fellow and Senior Scientist at
NASA's Astrobiology Institute at Ames Research Center
,
said he received 20 to 25 emails a week about the
impending arrival of Nibiru: some frightened, others angry and naming him as part of the conspiracy to
keep the truth of the impending apocalypse from the public, and still others asking whether or not they
should kill themselves, their children or their pets.[36][85] Half of these emails are from outside the U.S.
[20]
"Planetary scientists are being driven to distraction by Nibiru," notes science writer Govert Schilling ,
"And
it is not surprising; you devote so much time, energy and creativity to fascinating scientific research, and
find yourself on the tracks of the most amazing and interesting things, and all the public at
large is
concerned about is some crackpot theory about clay tablets, god-astronauts and a planet that doesn't
exist."[2]
Prior to the 2012 date, Morrison stated that he hoped that the non-arrival of Nibiru could serve as a
teaching moment for the public, instructing them on "rational thought and baloney detection", but doubted
that would happen.[36]
Morrison noted in a lecture recorded on
FORA.tv
that there was a huge disconnect between the large
number of people on the Internet who believed in Nibiru's arrival and the majority of scientists who have
never heard of it. To date he is the only major NASA
scientist to speak out regularly against the Nibiru
phenomenon.[85]
Cultural influence
[edit]
A viral marketing campaign for Sony Pictures ' 2009 film 2012, directed by Roland Emmerich ,
which
depicts the end of the world in the year 2012, featured a supposed warning from the "Institute for Human
Continuity" that listed the arrival of Planet X as one of its doomsday scenarios.[86] Mike Brown attributed a
spike in concerned emails and phone calls he received from the public to this site.[53]
The 2010 animated television series
Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated features Nibiru as a major plot
point in its second season, tying the apocalyptic event with its mythological namesake.
See also
[edit]
List of topics characterized as pseudoscience
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The Nibiru cataclysm is a supposed disastrous

(either a collision or a near-miss ) which certain groups

believe will take place in the early 21st century. Believers

encounter between the Earth and a large planetary object

usually refer to this object as

will collide with or pass by Earth in the near future is not

supported by any scientific evidence and has been

astronomers and planetary scientists.[2][3]

and an internet hoax by

The idea was first put forward in 1995 by Nancy

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Lieder,[4][5] founder of the website ZetaTalk. Lieder

receive messages from extraterrestrials from the Zeta

states that she was chosen to warn mankind that the

object would sweep through the inner Solar System in

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May 2003 (though that date was later postponed) causing

Pictures of V838 Mon, a star with a light echo

Earth's imminent collision or

Earth to undergo a physical pole shift that would destroy

spread beyond Lieder's website and has been embraced

by numerous Internet doomsday groups, most of which

"Nibiru" is derived from the works of the ancient

astronaut writer Zecharia Sitchin and his interpretations

of Babylonian and Sumerian mythology; he denied any

connection between his work and various claims of a

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Marshall Masters, Jaysen