Nibiru (also known as Planet Nine or Planet X) is prophesied to collide with our planet and destroy all of humanity, but is its existence pseudoscience or is there any proof? <\/p>
What evidence is there for the existence of the planet Nibiru? Well, every so often rumours circulate on the internet about the reappearance of a \u2018wandering planet\u2019 called Niburu.<\/p>\n
Also known as Planet Nine<\/a> or Planet X, Nibiru is supposedly mentioned on ancient Sumerian clay tablets and is said to have crashed through the early Solar System creating the asteroid belt and the Earth before vanishing again.<\/p>\n It\u2019s true that beyond the Solar System lurk failed stars known as brown dwarfs that are barely bigger than the planet Jupiter. However, the chances of a disastrous encounter with one are mercifully small.<\/p>\n This article was first published 21 August 2018. It was reviewed by Thomas Ling<\/a> on 12 July 2023.<\/em><\/p>\n Read more:<\/strong><\/p>\n Nibiru (also known as Planet Nine or Planet X) is prophesied to collide with our planet and destroy all of humanity, but is its existence pseudoscience or is there any proof? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":30024,"template":"","categories":[30],"acf":{"readingTimeMinutes":"< 1"},"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2023\/07\/will-planet-nibiru-crash-into-earth-a-scientist-explains.jpg",2121,1414,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2023\/07\/will-planet-nibiru-crash-into-earth-a-scientist-explains-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2023\/07\/will-planet-nibiru-crash-into-earth-a-scientist-explains-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2023\/07\/will-planet-nibiru-crash-into-earth-a-scientist-explains-768x512.jpg",768,512,true],"large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2023\/07\/will-planet-nibiru-crash-into-earth-a-scientist-explains-1024x683.jpg",800,534,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2023\/07\/will-planet-nibiru-crash-into-earth-a-scientist-explains-1536x1024.jpg",1536,1024,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2023\/07\/will-planet-nibiru-crash-into-earth-a-scientist-explains-2048x1365.jpg",2048,1365,true]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"importmanagerhub@sprylab.com","author_link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcsciencefocus\/author\/importmanagerhubsprylab-com\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Nibiru (also known as Planet Nine or Planet X) is prophesied to collide with our planet and destroy all of humanity, but is its existence pseudoscience or is there any proof?","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcsciencefocus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed\/30023"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcsciencefocus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcsciencefocus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/rss_feed"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcsciencefocus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcsciencefocus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcsciencefocus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcsciencefocus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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