No, A ‘Rogue Planet’ Isn’t About To Blow Us All Up - Here’s Why

If you read the wilder reaches of the internet, a ‘rogue planet’ called Nibiru might be on a collision course with Earth - and due to hit us in December.

Except, says science writer Robert Walker, it doesn’t exist - and is a giant hoax, according to a new Kindle book 'Imaginary Bullsh*t Planet Nibiru' by Robert Walker.

‘Nibiru’ or ‘Planet X’ has been predicted to kill us all on several occasions - and has never even shown up.

In 2003, a woman who claimed she had an alien implant in her brain said that the planet was on a collision course with Earth.

It wasn’t.

In 2012, Mayan apocalypse believers went on so much about Nibiru that Professor Brian Cox snapped on Twitter, ‘If anyone else asks me about "Nibiru" the imaginary bulls**t planet I will slap them around their irrational heads.’

Sites such as Before It’s News claim the planet is once again on a collision course with Earth - blaming it for everything from climate change to an impending doomsday collision.

NASA has thoroughly debunked the Nibiru myth via its Beyond 2012 page, saying,
‘Nibiru and other stories about wayward planets are an Internet hoax. There is no factual basis for these claims. If Nibiru or Planet X were real and headed for an encounter with the Earth, astronomers would have been tracking it for at least the past decade, and it would be visible by now to the naked eye.’

Walker writes, ‘, considered as astronomy, it is too nonsensical to be classified as a theory. There are no astronomers behind it, no academic papers, no nothing. The so called "Nibiru observations" wouldn't pass muster for the very first stage of an unconfirmed sighting.

‘There is no information there you could use to prepare an alert to send out to other astronomers to get them to look out for it. If you come to it with an astronomical background, there is nothing there at all except a lot of chattering people, smokes and mirrors, and people quoting texts from various ancient scriptures - apparently under the impression that this an accurate way to predict motions of planets in astrophysics.

‘There may be undiscovered large planets in our solar system, maybe as large as Mars, even Earth. But to remain hidden, even from a ten inch amateur scope, they would have to be many times the distance to Pluto away, in the very distant Oort cloud - where it's thought there's a vast population of icy bodies of many sizes stretching much of the way to the nearest stars.’

Nigel Watson, author of the UFO Investigations Manual says, ‘The concept of a Planet X is a cornerstone of Zcharia Sitchin’s ancient astronaut theories. After studying ancient Sumerian texts he concluded that the planet Nibiru exists beyond Neptune and visits our part of the Solar System every 3,600 years.

‘He claims that Nibiru collided with a planet called Tiamat that was situated between Mars and Jupiter. The result was the creation of the asteroid belt and planet Earth.’

‘Nibiru is populated by the Anunnaki, an advanced humanoid race, who visited Earth thousands of years to mine gold in Africa. As an outcome of needing workers to carry out these mining operations they used genetics to create Homo Sapians.’

‘This is a well thought-out theory based on ancient texts, but most of it cannot be proved and the concept of a planet on such a large ellipital orbit around our Sun doesn’t fit with our current scientific understanding of the Solar System.’

‘Nonetheless the popularity of these type of ideas makes it certain that every new discovery by our spaceships will be be minutely studied for any evidence of Nibiru, or any other similar body that might be populated by extraterrestrials.’