Originally posted by worldwatcher
I'm confused

in a 2012 book I read, I think it's called Apocalypse, the author whom I can't remember at the moment sited material that said
that "Planet X is 18% larger than Pluto" and that it was discovered in 1989 I believe.. I have to go look for the book.. So which is it??
That "Planet X" would be Eris with moon Dysnomia, formerly called Xena with moon Gabrielle and before that designated as 2003 UB313 first discovered
in 2003 but not confirmed till 2005
The problem most people have is confusing the term "Planet X" with "Nibiru" They are not the same though have become so in internet chatter.
Percival Lowell first sought Planet X as there was missing influence in the planetary orbits so there must be a 10th planet...
Eris is slightly larger than Pluto and was what cause Pluto being bumped to Dwarf Planet status.
We also have Ceres (in the asteroid belt) and several other planets (or dwarf planets) recently discovered in the Kuiper belt..
Here is Eris's orbit and size comparison. As you can see this is a very long elliptical orbit
Here are some of the others
Now everyone is picking on Sitchin, but I have to ask where everyone is getting this 2012 Nibiru thing from...
Nibiru settled into a clockwise orbit (equal to 3,600 orbits of Earth
around the Sun). Nibiru stabilized into a clockwise orbit, equal to
3,600 orbits of Earth around the Sun until 10, 900 B.C.E., when
Nibiru arrived earlier, due to increasing drift from Solaris of
Uranus. Uranus' gravity sped Nibiru's orbit. As a result of this
close encounter between Nibiru and Uranus, one of Nibiru's moons,
Miranda, was captured by and became a moon of Uranus as Nibiru and
Uranus pulled at each other. From 10,000B.C.E. on, Nibiru's
revolution sped to 3.450 Earth years; which makes Nibiru's next
return 2900A.D. rather than 2012 as predicated on the earlier 3600-
year orbit [Sitchin, Z., 2007, The End of Days, pages 315 - 317].
2900 AD not 2012
Thats a long time away... so why worry?
It would really help if people actually read the work they try so hard to debunk