cockamamie fringe theory about Planet X — an ideate planet typically name Nibiru that is on course to hit or legislate by Earth with calamitous consequences — are the form of thing unremarkably relegated to conceit jam - published books or those tabloids you browse in the supermarket checkout gangway . On Wednesday , they made itinto Fox News , with the add caution that maybe some other Biblical disaster could surprise us instead .
The Planet X theory first emerged in 1995 and is usually evidenced by tortured rendition of spiritual texts , with vague suppositions that NASA either has n’t discover this ominous celestial body or is actively breed up its existence to prevent far-flung panic . In an articlefiled to Fox ’s websiteon Wednesday , this sentence the preach doomsday comes good manners of an article in British rag theDaily Expressciting numerologist David Meade ’s version of the Bible ’s Revelation 12:1 - 2 :
Is The Rapture in conclusion here ? One Christian numerologist says a scriptural sign strongly suggests it .
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The passage reads : “ And a corking sign appeared in heaven : a woman clothed with the sun , with the moon under her foot , and on her head a crown of 12 stars . She was pregnant and was crying out in nascency striving and the agony of pay birth . ”
In the passage , the charwoman is represented as Virgo .
fit in to Meade , the alignment represents “ the Lion of the tribe of Judah , ” marking the Rapture , the impression that Christ will wreak the faithful into paradise prior to a period of visitation on earth that precedes the close of time .
( Incredibly , while the Express clause introduce Meade as a conspiracy theorist , the Fox News one does not . )
Meade is apparently telling every green soulfulness with the time to listen that Planet X will look above the Earth on April 23rd , 2018 . This will touch off the Rapture , because the major planet ’s massive gravitational force will make volcanic eruptions , temblor , tsunamis , and all that other bad stuff you see in Roland Emmerich movies .
To contest this grand title , Fox News includes one survey from a mainstream scientific source in just nine words :
NASA repeatedly has said Planet X is a hoax .
To clarify , NASA has saidthat Caltech researchers analyzing the area of objects in the Kuiper Belt have find some evidence that there is indeed a large satellite in range around the Sun beyond Neptune that could be as big as 10 Earth masses . ( This is also sometimes referred to by the nickname of “ Planet X ” in the medium , though the conspiracy theories precede any scientific evidence of its existence . ) The universe of this satellite is merely theoretical , though similar analysis of Uranus ’ orbitlaid the basistofirst observe Neptunein 1846 .
If it does exist , NASA say the available grounds indicates the unsung planet would be “ about 20 times far from the Dominicus on average than Neptune ” with an orbital period of 10,000 - 20,000 Earth years . That ’s style further away than Pluto , which no one really seems concerned about smack Earth in the face .
Regarding the Nibiru theory , in an articleon NASA ’s Solar System Exploration Research Virtual Institute , NASA planetary uranologist David Morrison allege confederacy idealogue are “ constantly vary their story ” on the catastrophic nature of Planet X. Morrison warned that Nibiru write up distribute on YouTube and numerous websites , that he sometimes draw five e-mail a twenty-four hours about it , and that “ If [ a story ] is veridical , it is likely to be in regular newsworthiness culture medium , not just post on some website . ”
Fox , which is apparently some internet site , instead directed reader to this lengthy quote from Jonathan Sarfati , a forcible chemist who happens to be aYoung Earth creationistand is thereby maybe not the idealistic person to beak for a debunker . According to Safarti , we do n’t need to worry about April 23rd , not specifically because Planet X does not exist , but because the transport will happen at any prison term it all-fired well pleases :
He tell apart the Express : “ As usual with any star divination ( or Christian adaptations of it ) , one cherry - picks the stars that equip the desired conclusion .
“ There is nothing to suggest that April 23 is a momentous appointment for biblical prognostication , and Christians involve to be deliberate about being drawn into such sensationalist claims .
“ We wo n’t lie with the Clarence Day or the hour — so we should be prepared at all times ! ”
There you have it , folk music . Either a fabulous major planet is lead to pull the Earth beneath its mighty gravity on April 23rd , or something else just as risky and irregular could happen at any clock time . The only thing that ’s clear ? NASA is hiding something .
[ Fox News ]
Correction : An earlier version of this article misstate Morrison ’s name . It is David Morrison , not Daniel Morrison . We regret the error .
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