As this animated gif shows
it is not possible for two bodies to remain occulted from each other by the sun standing between them.

As the orbit of Earth is elliptical (all orbits are),
and the distances from the Sun so great (not like a satellite close to the earth),
and the speed of orbit varies by day of the year, (summer is slow, winter is fast)
one would be lucky to have even a few days where the other planet was not visible.

To prove this,
take any one position of the earth, bisect the ellipse, and notice that the line almost never intersects with the Sun.


David Grouchy

{scale of the gif is exaggerated for emphasis}

Originally posted by seabhac-rua

The Earths orbit is almost circular, with an eccentricity of only 0.02.

Correct!



But let's look at what that 0.02 eccentricty means on an Astronomical scale.



152,098,232 km = Aphelion
147,098,290 km = perihelion

a difference of

4,999,942 km

The sun only has a diameter of
1,392,000 km

wich is three and a half times too small to cover the distance.




And the numbers above are not even factoring in the differences in speed on different places in the orbit.


David Grouchy


{if the other body/planet had it's own propulsion system, on the other hand .... }

Originally posted by seabhac-rua

I'm in no way supporting the OP's assertion, but out of curiosity, could gravitational lensing have any roll to play here?

Yes. Yes it could.
It would allow us to see just a little around the curve of the Sun.
Thus making the area of occultation even smaller,
and the possiblity of a hidden body on the other side even less likely.


David Grouchy

Not to mention the gravitational effects of an unknown planetary body...

And this guy is supposed to be the head of the RNSA? This doesn't say much for top Russian intelligence.

Originally posted by DerbyCityLights
And this guy is supposed to be the head of the RNSA? This doesn't say much for top Russian intelligence.

Wasn't Richard Hoagland some kind of manager or director at Nasa? Heheh,

Oops, confusion there, rnSa = Security not Space, nvm sorry...

Strange, I cannot find any half-decent source even indicating that the National Security Academy of Russia even exists...

Any search for this Dr Uvarov also only yields links to obscure UFO websites or Amazon where his books are sold....

You would think that there would be at least a Wiki page on the National Security Academy of Russia, but nope...

Which leads me to believe that this "Academy" is nothing more than a cover to lend some credibility to a guy selling books. Is he even a Dr?

I have a Russian step aunty and I asked her once about Gog and Magog. She told me they believe that Gog is under the Pale of Settlement and that is why the Russians blockaded it, you couldn't go in or leave. And that was a type of prison for the occupants, where the gate of the prison was made by Alexander the Great.

And I believe that Hades (another type of prison) is under Siberia, because when the Russians drilled down, they come to a void so they put a probe down to hear the sounds of tectonic plates but instead they heard the screams of millions of people. It happened in 1940s I believe and is on Youtube. This could be the installation the man in the video is talking about.

And I heard a theory that Tunsguska event may be the occupants of the huge cavern under Siberia and lower, trying to escape or others trying to help them escape. I didn't make this up, I said I heard it.

Maybe he is the equivalent of NASA, 'never a straight answer'. Full of disinformation.

Peace

this is utterly amazing. . .

Originally posted by Gliese581
Dr. Valery Uvarov, Head of the Russian National Security Academy, Department of UFO Research, Paleosciences and Paleotechnology, speaks of ancient civilization that built a planetary protection installation in Siberia. Those ET live on a planet opposite of the Sun, says Dr Uvarov. Does he speak of Nibiru?

Who the bloody hell is Dr Valery Uverov?

So these ET live in the only place in the Solar system where we might have not spotted their planet do they? Do you think he might be making this up then?