Planet X / Nibiru, the 10th planet name comes from the Sumerian cuneiform stone tablets and writings that are 6,000 years old. The term Nibiru means "Planet of the crossing". The Sumerian culture is the first recorded civilization on earth, then called Sumerian, today's Iraq. It has been known throughout ensuing time periods as Sumer, Mesopotamia, and Babylon, all the same location for where earth's first culture shows up on earth. The Sumerian Culture is the oldest known civilization we know of based on the artifacts and monuments that still remain. The space probes sent out by NASA, mainly Voyager, and Pioneer, detected perturbations in the outer planets which suggested that there is still another planet, or heavenly body beyond Pluto that is affecting the orbits of the outer planets. Sept 30, 1846 --- one week after the discovery of Neptune, Le Verrier declared that there may be still another unknown planet out there. On October 10, Neptune's large moon Triton was discovered, which yielded an easy way to accurately determine the mass of Neptune, which turned out to be 2% larger than expected from the perturbations upon Uranus. Finally, astronomer Tombaugh found Pluto in 1930 - albeit six degrees away from the calculated point of their search for another planet beyond Neptune at that time.It was quickly realized that Pluto was too small to have the supposed gravitational effect on Neptune, and so the search went on beyond Pluto, for yet one more missing planet, that we know call Planet X. Recently, NASA has brought up the notion that there is a large body sending comets and debris into the sun caused by a large Nemesis planet. This is very similar to what the ancient sumerian culture says about their ancient planet "nibiru".
It is interesting to note that NASA is now starting to acknowledge references of this Nemesis planet mentioned in various cultures but thought till now to just be myth.
It is interesting to note that NASA is now starting to acknowledge references of this Nemesis planet mentioned in various cultures but thought till now to just be myth.
Search narrows for our 10th Planet, Planet X, Nibiru
Tue, Feb 23, 2016: US astronomers may have found a tenth planet beyond Neptune.
By studying data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft orbiting Saturn, astronomers Konstantin Batygin and Mike Brown predicted the existence of planet 10. it is about 10 times more massive than Earth.
Its existence was predicted with mathematical modelling and computer simulations, and was said to exactly explain the strange clumping behavior of a group of dwarf planets in the Kuiper Belt, a field of icy objects and debris beyond Neptune.
Laskar and his team said the search field can be further narrowed if Cassini, due to finish its mission next year, is extended to 2020.
Many other planets have been predicted through modelling over the years, the discovery of Neptune, first predicted from its gravitational pull on Uranus.
It is proposed that the systematic residuals in the positions of Uranus and Neptune may be due to an unknown planet: Planet X. Using the weighted-least-squares method, the orbit and mass of Planet X were computed from the residuals of Uranus. It is concluded that, if it exists, Planet X will be the tenth planet. However, it may not be the tenth from the sun since the computed semimajor axis is a little less than Pluto's. Planet X's perihelion, like Pluto's, is inside the orbit of Neptune.
The observation of the region of the sky in which it is believed Planet X should now be, based on perturbations observed in the motions of Uranus and Neptune, was determined, and there was no reason to update that determination. A limited area of that region was photographed, and that will be continued. A given area is photographed with the twin 20 cm astrograph in New Zealand on two successive nights near the time that area is in opposition, and these plates are blinked in Washington to identify anything that has moved. The predicted region is in the south, which requires observations from a southern station, and it is in opposition in the April to June period, which means observations have not yet started for the year. Blinking will be done as soon as the plates are received in Washington.
By studying data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft orbiting Saturn, astronomers Konstantin Batygin and Mike Brown predicted the existence of planet 10. it is about 10 times more massive than Earth.
Its existence was predicted with mathematical modelling and computer simulations, and was said to exactly explain the strange clumping behavior of a group of dwarf planets in the Kuiper Belt, a field of icy objects and debris beyond Neptune.
Laskar and his team said the search field can be further narrowed if Cassini, due to finish its mission next year, is extended to 2020.
Many other planets have been predicted through modelling over the years, the discovery of Neptune, first predicted from its gravitational pull on Uranus.
It is proposed that the systematic residuals in the positions of Uranus and Neptune may be due to an unknown planet: Planet X. Using the weighted-least-squares method, the orbit and mass of Planet X were computed from the residuals of Uranus. It is concluded that, if it exists, Planet X will be the tenth planet. However, it may not be the tenth from the sun since the computed semimajor axis is a little less than Pluto's. Planet X's perihelion, like Pluto's, is inside the orbit of Neptune.
The observation of the region of the sky in which it is believed Planet X should now be, based on perturbations observed in the motions of Uranus and Neptune, was determined, and there was no reason to update that determination. A limited area of that region was photographed, and that will be continued. A given area is photographed with the twin 20 cm astrograph in New Zealand on two successive nights near the time that area is in opposition, and these plates are blinked in Washington to identify anything that has moved. The predicted region is in the south, which requires observations from a southern station, and it is in opposition in the April to June period, which means observations have not yet started for the year. Blinking will be done as soon as the plates are received in Washington.