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As legitimate as Santa Claus! (I will explain that one when you get to the sixth grade)
Planet X?
it doesn't exist.
well, its a little more complicated than that, but
it doesn't exist.
originally, "Planet X" was something an astronomer supposed might exist outside of the orbit of Neptune, to explain some strange numbers they got computing the orbits of the outer two gas giants. I mean, by observing, Uranus was a little bigger than Neptune, but Neptune was acting heavier.
When Voyager flew by in the 80s, it was determined that, yes, indeed, Neptune WAS a little heavier than they thought. Mystery solved... or was it?
In about 1994 a REAL NUTTER named Nancy Lieder announced that she had been abducted by a Flying Saucer and was in mental communication with some aliens that lived on Planet X. Since it was totally bogus, few paid her any mind, but she latched onto the writings of Zach Stickpin (only slightly less nutty) who claimed that the Ancient Sumerians (whose writings only HE could interpret) wrote about a planet that had a very long orbit of about 3600 years, which he called Nibiru. Nancy saw that Stickpin's claim that Nibiru would be back in 2075 wasn't making HER any money, so she said Nibiru was Planet X and that it was really coming back MUCH SOONER. In 2003.
Yes, 2003. So, why are we all hearing about it again in 2012?
ANOTHER mystery!
Basically, a nutter named Jose Arguelles (the one that thinks he is a reincarnated Mayan Priest from the 5th century... AND the one that tried to sue the UN... yeah, him) wrote about how the Mayan calendar "ended" in 2012 and how we were all gonna die! Well, all the rest of the Mayan scholars disagreed but here we are... proving that people will believe almost anything!
But why, you ask, are we waiting for Planet X in 2012 when it already missed its visit in 2003? Simple. None of the Hoaxers ever thought you would LOOK IT UP.
Did you?
http://www.2012hoax.org/planet-x
don't get ahead of yourself, kid... you aren't in the sixth grade yet! we all know that only fifth graders believe in the 2012 doomsday hoax.
Planet X?
it doesn't exist.
well, its a little more complicated than that, but
it doesn't exist.
originally, "Planet X" was something an astronomer supposed might exist outside of the orbit of Neptune, to explain some strange numbers they got computing the orbits of the outer two gas giants. I mean, by observing, Uranus was a little bigger than Neptune, but Neptune was acting heavier.
When Voyager flew by in the 80s, it was determined that, yes, indeed, Neptune WAS a little heavier than they thought. Mystery solved... or was it?
In about 1994 a REAL NUTTER named Nancy Lieder announced that she had been abducted by a Flying Saucer and was in mental communication with some aliens that lived on Planet X. Since it was totally bogus, few paid her any mind, but she latched onto the writings of Zach Stickpin (only slightly less nutty) who claimed that the Ancient Sumerians (whose writings only HE could interpret) wrote about a planet that had a very long orbit of about 3600 years, which he called Nibiru. Nancy saw that Stickpin's claim that Nibiru would be back in 2075 wasn't making HER any money, so she said Nibiru was Planet X and that it was really coming back MUCH SOONER. In 2003.
Yes, 2003. So, why are we all hearing about it again in 2012?
ANOTHER mystery!
Basically, a nutter named Jose Arguelles (the one that thinks he is a reincarnated Mayan Priest from the 5th century... AND the one that tried to sue the UN... yeah, him) wrote about how the Mayan calendar "ended" in 2012 and how we were all gonna die! Well, all the rest of the Mayan scholars disagreed but here we are... proving that people will believe almost anything!
But why, you ask, are we waiting for Planet X in 2012 when it already missed its visit in 2003? Simple. None of the Hoaxers ever thought you would LOOK IT UP.
Did you?
http://www.2012hoax.org/planet-x