2012: Six End-of-the-World Myths Debunked Myth 4

2012 MYTH 4

Planet X Is on a Blow Advance With Earth

Some say it's out there: a abstruse Planet X, aka Nibiru, on a blow advance with Earth—or at atomic a confusing flyby.

A absolute hit would obliterate Earth, it's said. Even a abreast miss, some fear, could battery Earth with baleful asteroid impacts hurled our way by the planet's gravitational wake.

Could such an alien planet absolutely be headed our way in 2012, even just a little bit?

Well, no.

"There is no article out there," NASA astrobiologist Morrison said. "That's apparently the a lot of aboveboard affair to say."

The origins of this approach in fact predate boundless absorption in 2012. Popularized in allotment by a woman who claims to accept letters from extraterrestrials, the Nibiru doomsday was originally predicted for 2003.

"If there were a planet or a amber dwarf or whatever that was traveling to be in the close solar arrangement three years from now, astronomers would accept been belief it for the accomplished decade and it would be arresting to the naked eye by now," Morrison said.

"It's not there."