[silverleaf]

well, if everything I've read is “wrong” then there will be no planet/large body on an elliptical orbit which will bring it into our solar system to pass between Mars and Jupiter, on a plane under our earth - perhaps within the next 3 years

and if planet x is on a concentric orbit that stays way out beyond Pluto, we still won't know why the planets and their moons in the outer solar system are heating up and showing more volcanic activity

and there will be no need for that observatory built down in Antarctica in 1994 to search that part of the sky to watch it and Robert Harrington the (late) former Chief of the Naval Observatory got all excited about nothing and ran down to New Zealand and never came back for nothing

and we are spending $12 billion a year to develop satellite coverage over the poles not to watch for shift and measure magnetism fluctuations and undersea volcanic vents melting the ice caps from below- but will instead watch surface borne manmade carbon melt the ice caps from above

and what is supposed to start showing up in the sky visible to amateur astronomers this summer won't be that planet x

And people won't get all riled up by the fictional movie “2012” due out this summer

And 2012 will pass just as quietly as Y2K

and I will have some survival plans, skills and supplies to save for the next big tin foil hat scare!

[SunkenCiv]

The point is, Eris isn’t the fictional planet Nibiru (an invention of unintentional comedy writer Z Sitchin). It’s somewhat bigger than Pluto, and isn’t on the verge of entering the inner Solar System.

Nibiru doesn’t exist, although if Sitchin were correct, it would have swung through here in the late centuries BC. Instead, bupkis.

Harrington (who coauthored some interesting stuff with Tom Van Flandern) worked out possible locations for one or more of his hypothetical (rather than fictional) planets X, and knew that he’d have to conduct his searches from the southern hemisphere.

The southern hemisphere is mostly water, and doesn’t have the number of observatories that the northern hemisphere does. In fact, Matese’ argument that comet focussing indicates a large, way-out, unknown outer planet has been criticized by at least one astronomer as having resulted from not having enough data from southern hemisphere observers.

> what is supposed to start showing up in the sky visible to amateur astronomers this summer

I guess we’ll all find out together. And when we do, Sitchin followers and heirs and assigns forever will come up with some reason that it will happen later.

ZetaTalk: Whiplash
ZetaTalk | written Apr 14, 2004 | Nancy Lieder
Posted on 12/30/2005 5:47:27 PM PST by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1549609/posts

[SunkenCiv]

• It's been more than three years and it's a great time for a re-ping. While looking for something related I reencountered this topic.

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