Niburu

NIBURU

There are 9 planets circling the sun – Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Pluto – though recentl,y Pluto has been excluded as a planet. However, according to Z. Sitchin ancient myths from Sumer refer to a tenth planet, planet X or Niburu, which also circles the sun, be it on a much wider trajectory.

As all planets circle the sun in about the plane of the ecliptic, this planet crosses this plane and takes 3600 years to complete its elliptical journey around the sun. When passing the sun at its shortest distance it would be near enough for its presumed inhabitants to visit the earth.

Such a planet would not ideally suit human beings. Most of the time it would be far away from the sun in the dark and the cold of the universe. If the inhabitants needed the same warmth we do, the planet would have to be self-heated.

Astronomy does not confirm the hypothesis of Sitchin though sometimes new satellites are discovered such as object UB313. However, that new planet with a diameter of 2400 km is bigger than Pluto. The planet is now named Eris. It crosses the plane of the ecliptic by 44⁰ similar to Sitchin’s planet X.

Nevertheless, scientists often have to change their minds and abandon earlier theories. For instance, only since astronauts have visited the moon and brought a number of moon stones back to earth do we know how the moon once came into existence. More than 4 billion years ago, a planet now called Theia, about the size of Mars with a diameter of 6400 kilometres collided with the Earth and sent large volumes of material into the universe. Over the course of millions of years that material clotted together and the moon was formed. So Theia was not a predictable planet as the current ones are, but was on a collision course. Niburu is another Theia.