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The criminals usually have to fight science to predict an apocalypse, but this time scientists have opened the door.

Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union, a group of scientists led by the Carnegie Institution for Science, Tuesday announced the discovery of an object – "The Goblin" – at the edge of the solar system – which suggests the existence of an even more distant object that could be elusive "Planet X ".

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Planet X, also known as "Planet Nine" by scientists, is a still-unknown "super-Earth" that could have a mass 10 times greater than Earth's – what NASA says "n & # 39 is only theoretical at this stage.

Their theory is that planet X would be beyond the newly discovered object and that it would have enough gravitational attraction for the goblin to have an irregular orbit around the sun. This would also explain the orbit anomalies for the large outer planets of our solar system, Neptune and Uranus.

But some theorists of the end of the world consider the planet X as their elusive planet, Nibiru, a fictitious heavenly body on a devious path that they believe will lead to the disappearance of the Earth. Nibiru has been at the center of many end-of-the-world predictions in recent years – all of which have proven to be 100% false, of course.

While the unfortunate realize their new theories, here are four things to know about Planet X / Nibiru.

NASA does not have it

NASA tends to ignore the damned, but the talk about Nibiru has been ubiquitous enough to prompt two videos of NASA's chief scientist, David Morrison, to deny its existence.

"There is no credible evidence of Nibiru's existence," he says in one of the videos. "It does not take an astronomer to see that there is no Nibiru … … please, get over it … Nibiru is not real."

The "threat" of Nibiru goes back to the 1990s

A popular early prediction linking Nibiru to the apocalypse was evoked in 1995 and was linked to a Wisconsin woman, Nancy Lieder, who claimed to have met extraterrestrials when she was a child. She was convinced that they had told her that Nibiru would be near Earth in 2003 and would stop the rotation of our planet for several days, forcing the North and South poles to move and the Earth's crust to crack.

Nibiru-based apocalypse theories have proliferated since, including a recent high-profile article by numerologist David Meade, who was mistaken about the end of the world on September 23, 2017, though 39, he calls for follow-up. The prediction of April 23, 2018, which was attributed to him, was actually false news.

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What is behind these theories?

Humanity marveled at the end-time prophecies, using the words of the 16th century French prophet Nostradamus, for example, and theorizing (wrongly) that the Mayan calendar ended in 2012 because the ancient Mayas knew that the world was ending then.

But Nibiru was placed in an orbit with several theories.

Meade founded her book "Planet X – The 2017 Arrival" on a complicated system of application of numerology to biblical passages.

In a 2016 video, Pastor Paul Begley also raises the question of whether an unconfirmed space object (whether he's calling Nibiru or not) will hit the Earth: "NASA say one thing, then NASA says something else when it suits, but I "quote the scriptures. I tell you something is going to hit Earth, "he says.

Lieder has incorporated Nibiru's tradition into his own alien story called Zetas, which has implanted information and revealed to him the impending demise of the world (at least, she claimed).

Although many predictions say that Nibiru would crush on Earth, author Terral Croft last year predicted that celestial bodies would line up to create a "rear alignment seismic event" that would incite volcanoes. catastrophic and Earth's tectonic plates to crash.

What can you do about Nibiru?

Nothing, because it is not real.

In addition, the author of the books "The 12th Planet" and "The End Times", based in Nibiru, Zecharia Sitchin (deceased in 2010), disavowed the theories of a modern apocalypse due to the mysterious planet. He said that Nibiru would not be swinging on Earth for several hundred years.

So, let future generations worry about this hoax and live your life.

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