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Nibiru: How The

Nonsense Planet X

Armageddon And Nasa

Fake News Theories

Spread Globally

By Mark Malloy

Nibiru conspiracy theories about the end of the
world have been circulating online for more than
two decades, with the latest dubious prophecy
predicting the apocalypse - September 23, 2017.
Planet X, or Nibiru, refers to a
mythological planet in our solar system that will
supposedly crash into Earth and wipe out the
human race, however it has been consistently
dismissed by Nasa and other experts as an
internet hoax.
Despite absolutely no scientific evidence
to back up the suggestions of a rogue planet
getting rapidly closer to Earth, myths about
Planet X continue to be perpetuated online.
Of course, this isn't the first time time Advent of Jesus Christ in 1833, predicting he fellowship, said the world would be engulfed
harbingers of doom have predicted the end of
would return in the year 1843. and destroyed by a great fire on October 7.
time; Nasa also had to deny the existence of
The Millerites were his followers and McCann said he was "surprised" by the
Nibiru in 2012.
Millerism became a national movement, outcome and wrote a blog post entitled: "A
Throughout history there have been
however when Jesus didn’t arrive, October 22, response to being incorrect with the prediction
similar claims, but thankfully none of them so
1844, became known as the Great that, in all likelihood, the world would end on
far have been proved correct.
Disappointment. October 7."
How did conspiracy theories about
1997: What does Nasa say this time?
Planet X start?
Twenty years ago, 29 members of Heaven’s
Gate, a UFO religious millenarian group, Nasa has definitively dismissed wild theories
Online chatter about Nibiru began back in 1995 about Nibiru as pseudoscience, issuing a number
committed suicide with the aim of boarding a
when Wisconsin native Nancy Lieder created of statements denying its existence.
UFO they believed was hiding behind the Hale-
the alien-conspiracy website ZetaTalk. “Various people are ‘predicting’ that
Bopp comet before the supposed end of the
Ms Lieder claims to be a conduit for
world. world will end on September 23 when another
aliens from the Zeta Reticuli star system, 39.17 planet collides with Earth,” say Nasa.
light years from Earth, who have warned her
2003: “The planet in question, Nibiru, doesn't
about the Nibiru catastrophe. exist, so there will be no collision. The story of
Planet X was also supposedly discovered by the
The conspiracy theory hasn’t gone away, Nibiru has been around for years (as has the
ancient Sumerian people and was meant to hit
with so-called Christian numerologist David 'days of darkness' tale) and is periodically
Earth in 2003, but never arrived.
Meade claiming Planet X is heading in our recycled into new apocalyptic fables.”
“This catastrophe was initially predicted
direction. They add: “Nibiru and other stories
for May 2003, but when nothing happened the
Meade believes October could see the about wayward planets are an internet hoax.
doomsday date was moved forward to
start The Rapture and a seven-year tribulation There is no factual basis for these claims. If
December 2012 and linked to the end of one of
period of widescale natural disasters. Nibiru or Planet X were real and headed for an
the cycles in the ancient Mayan calendar at the
encounter with the Earth … astronomers would
winter solstice in 2012,” say Nasa.
Why September 23? have been tracking it for at least the past decade,
and it would be visible by now to the naked eye.
2011
It has been claimed an unusual celestial Obviously, it does not exist.
The end of the world was also supposed to arrive
arrangement mirroring signs from the Bible’s “Eris is real, but it is a dwarf planet
on 21 May 2011, with Christian doomsday
Book of Revelation, September 23, will signal similar to Pluto that will remain in the outer
prophet Harold Camping predicting the Rapture
the start of the end of the world. solar system; the closest it can come to Earth is
would begin at 18:00 in each of the world's time
However, the EarthSky blog notes there about 4 billion miles.”
zones, wiping out nay-sayers with rolling
will be “nothing unique” about the sun, moon (Continued on Page 40)
earthquakes as believers ascended to heaven.
and planets on the date.
“In the past 1,000 years, this same event
2012
has happened at least four times already, in
Nasa had to debunk an ancient Maya prophecy
1827, 1483, 1293, and 1056,” explains
astronomer Christopher M. Graney. theory about the world ending back in 2012.
The Mayan connection “was a
Haven’t we been here before? misconception from the very beginning,”
astrophysicist Dr. John Carlson said at the time.
“The Maya calendar did not end on Dec.
This isn't the first time the apocalypse has been
21, 2012, and there were no Maya prophecies
predicted:
foretelling the end of the world on that date."
1844:
2015
American Baptist teacher William Miller first
Chris McCann, leader and founder of the eBible
shared publicly his belief in the coming Second