Planet X NIBIRU
The
Nibiru cataclysm is a supposed disastrous encounter between the
Earth and a large planetary object (either a collision or a
near-miss) which certain groups believe will take place in the early 21st century. Believers in this
doomsday event usually refer to this object as
Planet X or
Nibiru.
The idea that a planet-sized object will collide with or closely pass
by Earth in the near future is not supported by any scientific evidence
and has been rejected as
pseudoscience and an internet
hoax by astronomers and planetary scientists.
The idea was first put forward in 1995 by Nancy Lieder, founder of the website ZetaTalk. Lieder describes herself as a
contactee with the ability to receive messages from
extraterrestrials from the
Zeta Reticuli
star system through an implant in her brain. She states that she was
chosen to warn mankind that the object would sweep through the inner
Solar System in May 2003 (though that date was later postponed) causing Earth to undergo a physical
pole shift that would destroy most of humanity.
The prediction has subsequently spread beyond Lieder's website and has
been embraced by numerous Internet doomsday groups, most of which linked
the event to the
2012 phenomenon. The name "Nibiru" is derived from the works of the
ancient astronaut writer
Zecharia Sitchin and his interpretations of
Babylonian and
Sumerian mythology; he denied any connection between his work and various claims of a coming apocalypse.
