NIBIRU FOUND!!!!

[zorgon]

NIBIRU FOUND!!!!


V. Ch. Quetz / MPIA
An artist's conception shows the planetary-mass object PSO J318.5-22.

Eighty light-years from Earth, there's a world that's just six times more massive than Jupiter, floating all alone without a sun to keep it warm, astronomers reported Wednesday.

Such free-floaters have been reported before, but in the past, it hasn't always been clear whether these were orphaned planets or failed stars. This time, the scientists say they're sure it's a planet.

"We have never before seen an object free-floating in space that that looks like this," team leader Michael Liu of the Institute for Astronomy at the University of Hawaii at Manoa said in a news release. "It has all the characteristics of young planets found around other stars, but it is drifting out there all alone. I had often wondered if such solitary objects exist, and now we know they do."

The heat signature of the world, known as PSO J318.5-22, was identified by the Pan-STARRS 1 wide-field survey telescope on Haleakala, on the Hawaiian island of Maui. The light coming from the object is about 100 billion times fainter in optical wavelengths than the planet Venus. Most of its energy is emitted in infrared wavelengths.

N. Metcalfe & Pan-STARRS 1 Science Consortium
A multicolor image from the Pan-STARRS 1 telescope shows the free-floating planet PSO J318.5-22, in the constellation of Capricornus.

In a report being published in Astrophysical Journal Letters, Liu and his colleagues said the object has properties similar to those of gas-giant planets found orbiting young stars.

Past reports of "rogue planets" have been murky, due to the fact that it can be hard to discriminate between large planets and a class of failed stars known as brown dwarfs. Some astronomers insist on a definition of planets that would apply only to objects that form around stars. They'd prefer to call objects like PSO J318.5-22 "planetary-mass objects," or planemos for short.

PSO J318.5-22 was discovered while the researchers was combing through data from Pan-STARRS 1 for readings from brown dwarfs. Brown dwarfs are typically faint and red, but Liu and his colleagues said PSO J318.5-22 stood out because it was redder than the reddest known brown dwarfs.

http://www.nbcnews.com/science/astronomers-say-theyve-spotted-lonesome-planet-without-sun-8C11366309

[The Seeker]

I read that article earlier today, Z; evidently quite a few of these orphan stars,er, planets are wandering around...


seeker

[Pimander]

Nibiru.

It is not in Solar orbit.  Journalistic attention grabber.

[Amaterasu]

Now, Pim.  You know the headline makes the sales (someOne actually looking).

[zorgon]

Nibiru.

Well yes... it fits the size of Nibiru to a T and is about the right distance according to Sitchin's prediction that it will get here in 2900 AD

Journalistic attention grabber.

If you want people to read you have to slap them hard in the face to take their mind away from Justin Bieber or the current football game

Now see? How many people, during the whole 2012 thing, ever read Sitchin's book and found the part where he said "2900 AD"?



But no... the HEADLINES SCREAMED2012

And all the DOOM PORNERS fell right into the pit

So prove to me that this ISN'T Nibiru

[Pimander]

Now see? How many people, during the whole 2012 thing, ever read Sitchin's book and found the part where he said "2900 AD"?

Well I read the entire "12th Planet" if that's the book you are referring to.  Many of the people who click on your "NIBIRU FOUND!" headline clearly haven't though. 

You posted one of the things I look for to see if people have a clue what they are posting about.  Spoilsport.

[zorgon]

Well I read the entire "12th Planet"

Read it you have? Hmmm?

if that's the book you are referring to.

Well no...

"Nibiru settled into a clockwise orbit (equal to 3,600 orbits of Earth around the Sun). Nibiru stabilized into a clockwise orbit, equal to 3,600 orbits of Earth around the Sun until 10, 900 B.C.E., when Nibiru arrived earlier, due to increasing drift from Solaris of Uranus. Uranus' gravity sped Nibiru's orbit. As a result of this close encounter between Nibiru and Uranus, one of Nibiru's moons, Miranda, was captured by and became a moon of Uranus as Nibiru and Uranus pulled at each other. From 10,000B.C.E. on, Nibiru's revolution sped to 3.450 Earth years; which makes Nibiru's next return 2900A.D. rather than 2012 as predicated on the earlier 3600- year orbit"

Sitchin, Z., 2007, The End of Days, pages 315 - 317


2900 AD  not 2012

In Sitchin's own words... that is 892 years away...

[Pimander]

I know he didn't predict a return now but that's a different book to the one I read and I don't remember his dates from the 12th Planet.  I have a couple of his other books here too but they are in boxes so I can't have a quick look.

I do have an example of the nonsense that is written about Sitchin and the return of Nibiru though that backs up your point (although on this calculation Nibiru should return at a different date to the one you posted).

An article about Sitchin says this...

Nibiru's orbit around the Sun is highly elliptical, according to Sitchin's books, taking it out beyond the orbit of Pluto at its farthest point and bringing it as close to the Sun as the far side of the asteroid belt (a ring of asteroids that is known to occupy a band of space between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter). It takes Nibiru 3,600 years to complete one orbital journey, and it was last in this vicinity around 160 B.C.E.

http://paranormal.about.com/od/zsitchinniburu/a/Is-Nibiru-Approaching.htm

So if Nibiru (assuming Sitchin is right for the sake of argument) was here in 160 B.C.E. and orbits in 3,600 years then it is due to return in the year 3439 A.D. - which is even later than your Sitchin data predicts!

Astonishingly, the author of the article says in the next paragraph...

Well, prepare for yet another possible apocalypse because, they say, Nibiru is once again heading this way - and will be here soon.

http://paranormal.about.com/od/zsitchinniburu/a/Is-Nibiru-Approaching.htm

Doh!   

[zorgon]

Orbit of Nibiru - Posted on ATS from Zeta Talk




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