Nibiru
Sitchin's Nibiru Hypothesis
Those familiar with either the writings of Zecharia Sitchin or the current internet rantings about “the return of Planet X” are likely familiar with the word “nibiru”. According to self-proclaimed ancient languages scholar Zecharia Sitchin, the Sumerians knew of an extra planet beyond Pluto. This extra planet was called Nibiru. Sitchin goes on to claim that Nibiru passes through our solar system every 3600 years. Some believers in Sitchin’s theory also refer to Nibiru as “Planet X”, the name given to a planet that is allegedly located within our solar system but beyond Pluto. Adherents to the “returning Planet X hypothesis” believe the return of this wandering planet will bring cataclysmic consequences to earth.
Is Sitchin correct – Is Nibiru a 12th planet that passes through our solar system every 3600 years? Did the Sumerians know this? Unfortunately for Sitchin and his followers, the answer to each of these questions is no. But how do I know? The cuneiform record in such texts as the one on the left, the astronomical text known as MUL.APIN (The "Plough Star").
Readers can click here for a summary paper I wrote on the word nibiru in cuneiform texts. What follows draws from that paper and, in the case of the video, demonstrates the accuracy of my contention that there isn't a single text in the entire cuneiform record that:
- Has nibiru as a planet beyond Pluto
- Connects nibiru with the Anunnaki
- Has nibiru cycling through our solar system every 3600 years
Searching for Nibiru in Cuneiform Texts
Here is a video that I created showing you where to find the leading dictionary of cuneiform words online (for free). Viewers can find that source and do what I do in the rest of the video: look up the entry for nibiru (spelled neberu in scholarly transliteration) and check to see if any of the above ideas are found in any Akkadian or Sumerian texts that mention nibiru. Spoiler: there aren't any -- but don't take my word for it. Look it up yourself.
12 Planets in Sumerian Thought?
Does the cylinder seal above convey the fact that the Sumerians who fashioned it knew of 12 planets in our solar system? That's what Zecharia Sitchin claims about the seal. But he's wrong, and it isn't difficult to demonstrate. All one has to do to agree with Sitchin here is (a) ignore what the seal says; (b) ignore what is known about Sumerian astronomy from cuneiform astronomical texts (all published, but in scholarly books); and ignore standard Sumerian iconography -- artistic representations of stars. That's all.
Nibiru
Nibiru Statistics
| Object Type: | Methane Cloud Jovian | Parent Star: | Sol (G2 V) | Discovery Status: | Uncertain | Mass : | 3 Jupiters | Orbital Period: | 5 Million Years | Mean Distance: | 25000 AU | System Age: | 4600 Myr | Planet Appearance: | Blue with methane clouds and hazes | Estimated Radius: | 1.04 Jupiters | Estimated Mean Temp: | 1 Kelvin | Temp from Internal Heating : | 159.146 Kelvins | Mean Angular Star Size: | 0 Degrees | Gravitational Influence (Hill Sphere): | 2461.612 AU / 368252450000 km | Max Stable Prograde Moon Orbit: | 886.18 AU / 132570880000 km | Max Moon Mass: | > 10 Earths | Year Discovered: | 1999 | Detection Method: | Inferred from Cometary Orbit Perturbations | Discovered By: | Independantly by Murray and Matese |
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Nibiru Orbit Around Our Sun
Nibiru has an elliptical orbit as it comes close to our sun. It's orbit crosses paths with the orbits of the inner planets
It is believed that Nibiru will enter the inner solar system in the year 2012 and will leave in 2033 and there is a chance that it will pass very close to earth bring about a polar shift.
It is also believed that this pattern occurs every 10 million years, which is around the same time that the earth last had an ice age.
I and the other members of the seven have had visions of this polar shift taking place in 2033, And know that it is due to the passing of a large celestial object passing very near to the earth that the polar shift takes place.
You can learn more about this process on the page titled Events That Causes Ice Ages On Earth And Mobis