Just to be clear:

Planet X: A name given to several theoretical planets over the years, which until recently had nothing whatsoever to do with a mysterious planet that some say will return in 2012.

For example, in the 1800s, astronomers searching for a planet beyond Neptune called their un-discovered planet "Planet X". Before that, astronomers searching for what eventually would be called Neptune called thier undiscovored planet "Planet X".

Niburu: As it was said above, Nibiru is a very specific thing, NOT a general un-discovered planet, such as was the use for the term "Planet X".

Nibiru is a planet that some say the ancient Sumerians knew about and even calculated its 3600-year orbit. People who believe in Nibiru say it will return in 2012, and many say it will bring havoc to the Earth.


So as you can see, Planet X and Nibiru should be two totally different things. I'm sure there are MANY MANY undiscovered large bodies out the in the Solar System -- who knows, maybe even a planet-sized object. However, those hypothetical "Planet X's" are not necessarily Nibiru.

In fact, Japanese Astronomers have calculated the possible orbit of a new "Planet X". They haven't actually discovered a planet yet, but they claim their calculations say it exists. However, this CANNOT be Nibiru, since the theoretical orbit of this new body stays outside of Neptune.

...and to the OP: I hope you do understand that the fact Nibiru shows up under "most popular searches" on the NASA website has nothing to do with NASA confirming the existence of Nibiru, it just means that a lot of people have used that word in a search.

[edit on 8/28/2008 by Soylent Green Is People]

I had completely forgotten about Eris, but that's also because you don't hear about it much. So this is still no evidence for the destroyer Nibiru.

I'm afraid it won't be proven till after 21-12-2012, even when a planetery object heading this way is discovered before then, we still won't know its devastating capacities.

So this remains a mystery.

Originally posted by saturnus1962
I'm afraid it won't be proven till after 21-12-2012,

You should be feeling the gravitational effects LONG before then, in fact you should be feeling them right now. It's not like a light switch that suddenly comes on right at midnight on December 21, 2012. The object supposedly has an orbit of 3600 years, so it should be very close to us even right now. If that were the case our ability to correctly predict the locations of the outer planets would be completely gone, telescopes would all be incapable of automatically finding things in the outer solar system.

Originally posted by IAttackPeople
Since I am also able to follow simple instructions I am enjoying the non-existent HST imagery to be found at the site.

Thanks, no problem. Maybe this process is more complicated than I gave it credit for. Let me give a detailed description of what to do exactly so everyone knows how to get at hubble data in the future. First, of course, you must find what you want on the list. Now click the far right link for that entry, under the "more info" column (if you click the other links it takes you to a search page for that region of space - you can fill in your own coordinates on that page if there's somewhere in the sky you want to explore with hubble archives ). Now click retrieve data below in the page that comes up. Now enter "anonymous" in "archive username" and your email address in "archive password." If you have an FTP fill out the info, if you don't, click the selection bubble for "STAGE: Put the data on the archive staging disc." Now click "Send retrieval request to ST-DADS" and let your tax dollars go to work for you. You'll recieve an email when the image is ready. The link in the email wrongly has http, so replace it with FTP and find the directory they assign to you in the email.

[edit on 28-8-2008 by ngchunter]