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Originally posted by CLPrime
reply to post by sirric
That'll provide a handy excuse when nothing happens, won't it?
Originally posted by CLPrime
reply to post by Xcalibur254
I knew that... really, I did. Just distractions, making me mix up my cultural mythologies.
Originally posted by CLPrime
reply to post by wonderworld
I haven't heard of 1997XF11 before now, but it looks like it'll pass by safely. For now, that's my only opinion on that.
Nibiru has been called Planet X, and it's usually theorized to be a brown dwarf star (which some would call a really big gas giant). People usually just refer to it as a planet, though. Zechariah Sitchin popularized it, and even he didn't think it would be returning for hundreds of years still, but 2012ists have hijacked it. Every time someone sees something on some sky imaging service, or sees a lens flare in a picture of the sun, they think it's Nibiru.
Such a planet, though, is physically impossible. I would do the physics, but I've showed it so many times around here, I'm honestly getting quite tired of it. If you want me too, though, I will. I'm nice like that
Originally posted by CLPrime
reply to post by wonderworld
Okay, I have to say this... did I actually say "I've showed"? I've really gotta stop talking.
On any other day, I would be more than happy, actually, to show the physics (which turns out to be math, really), but, at the moment... with this spot of blood on the white bed sheet by my arm... yeah, I'm not gonna volunteer the effort.
I will, say, though, it's just basic orbital mechanics combined with our current knowledge of the objects that reside within our solar system that says that such a set-up (a planet with a 3600-year orbit) is impossible.
Somehow, I know I won't be able to talk her into hunkering in a cave, even though there's a perfectly good one not more than 1500 meters from our house.