that is approaching the earth. NASA: a huge asteroid is flying towards Earth. Where is the planet Nibiru now and when to approach the Earth
Internet resources have been actively discussing the possible collision of the mysterious Nibiru with the Earth for more than a year - the last time the adherents of the "conspiracy theory" predicted the end of the world, first on September 19, and then on September 23, 2018.
The mythical Nibiru, according to the theory of conspiracy theorists and ufologists, when colliding with the Earth, is capable of causing terrible natural disasters on it with its gravitational influence and even leading to a split of the globe.
At the same time, the existence of "Planet X" or Nibiru, according to astronomers, has not yet been proven or refuted.
So, let's try to figure out whether Nibiru really exists, if so, where it is located, and whether the end of the world is likely from its collision with the Earth.
Nibiru - truth and fiction
The mysterious Nibiru is mentioned for the first time in ancient Sumerian manuscripts. According to texts and drawings, the solar system consists of 12 planets revolving around the sun. According to the Sumerians, Nibiru is a giant space object with an elongated orbit.
This celestial body is located between Jupiter and Mars and crosses the solar system once every 3600 years. According to their assumptions, the next approach of Nibiru to the solar system will take place between 2100 and 2158.
Nibiru, according to ufologists, is currently rapidly approaching the Earth. Some of them believe that in less than a month there will be nothing alive on our planet, since the gravitational collapse provoked by Nibiru has already begun.
Scientists do suggest the existence of a ninth planet, but far from Earth. Officially, the existence of the planet has not been recorded anywhere - it was calculated mathematically, but physically no astronomer has yet seen it.
Scientists say that if Nibiru were approaching the Earth, this fact would have been established long ago. So, according to scientists, there is no threat of a collision between Nibiru and the Earth - all these are mere inventions of people spreading rumors about the end of the world.
At the same time, Nibiru, according to the media, was seen by the inhabitants of almost the entire globe. Over the past months, people on different continents of our planet have been observing an unusual red object in the sky, which has a rounded outline, confirming what they saw with various videos and photos.
So, for example, residents of the city of Houston (USA), as they claim, saw a mysterious celestial body in the sky in the form of a "second sun":
But all the secret becomes clear - according to scientists from the Massachusetts Institute, the red object in the sky, which was observed by the inhabitants of different countries of the Earth, may be "Planet X" or Nibiru.
According to a study by scientists, Nibiru can have gigantic dimensions that exceed the size of the Sun by hundreds of thousands of times. Despite the fact that every day people at dawn and at sunset observe the appearance of a strange red object near the Sun and Moon, Nibiru is now millions of light years from the Earth and does not threaten it with a collision.
End of the world - versions
The death of the Earth has been predicted more than once, but so far none of the predictions has been justified, although many sincerely believed in them and continue to believe.
There are many versions of the likely development of the end of the world - some believe that the rapid melting of glaciers and serious changes in the climate will lead to a global flood.
Others that the cause of the end of the world can be a deadly virus that, once in the water, can infect a huge number of people living on the planet.
The cause of the end of the world - that is, the extermination of all life on the planet - can be a large number of wars and natural anomalies that await humanity in the future.
Also, the reason for the end of the world may be the collision of various celestial bodies with the Earth.
According to one version, the next end of the world is predicted in 2021 - the weakening of the Earth's magnetic field will lead to its death.
A potentially dangerous "space guest" is considered to be asteroid 1999 AN10, with a diameter of 1.8 kilometers - it will fly past the Earth in August 2027.
Another "end of the world" was predicted by NASA experts - they believe that the asteroid Apophis weighing 18 million tons, which will reach the Earth in 2029 or 2036, will bring death to mankind.
Scientists carefully continue to study the information they have and objects that may pose a danger to the globe.
The end of the world is, theoretically, certainly possible. The Earth is essentially a star, and celestial bodies have a certain "shelf life", but no one knows the exact date of such an event.
Material prepared on the basis of open sources
The Ural meteorite for some time distracted scientists from another space object - an asteroid, which is approaching the Earth at this moment. According to calculations, it will approach the minimum distance to our planet at 23:20 Moscow time. This unique event will be broadcast live on the NASA website. The asteroid will be visible to residents of Asia and Australia, as well as, possibly, some parts of Eastern Europe.
In a little more than 2 hours, the DA14 object will pass the Earth at a distance of 28 thousand kilometers - this is closer than some satellites fly. If this asteroid weighing 130 tons and 45 meters in diameter collided with our planet, the explosion would be equal to one thousand Hiroshima. There was even an assumption that the meteorite that fell in the Urals could be part of this space monster and that other, larger ones would follow it. However, most scientists do not see a connection with the DA14 asteroid and the Ural meteorite.
"As to whether we are threatened by Armageddon or not. It is now known for certain. All asteroids larger than one kilometer in diameter, which bring such a catastrophe on a large scale to the Earth, they are all known and have well-known orbits, they are all cataloged and observed There is no danger from them," Lidia Rykhlova, head of the department of space astrometry at the Institute of Astronomy of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, assured.
While watching a large asteroid, the meteorite that fell in the Urals was overlooked. However, it was practically impossible to see it before entering the atmosphere - neither civilian observatories nor missile defense radars can do this - the size is too small and the speed is high. The military says that even if such a meteorite is found, modern air defense systems are not yet capable of destroying such objects. Already in hindsight, scientists deduced the data of a celestial body that had already fallen in the Urals - a mass of several tons, a speed of 15 kilometers per second, an angle of incidence of 45 degrees, and a shock wave power of several kilotons. At an altitude of 50 kilometers, the object collapsed into 3 parts and almost completely burned out in the atmosphere.
"No more than 10 meters in diameter, it flew at supersonic speed and therefore gave rise to a shock wave. This shock wave caused all these destructions, people were injured not by fragments of a meteorite, but by a shock wave. Now, if a supersonic plane would pass on the same altitude, for example, God forbid over Moscow, the destruction would have been the same,” said the deputy director of the State Astronomical Institute. Sternberg Sergei Lamzin.
Any space object that has reached the Earth's atmosphere and left a trace in it is called a meteorite by scientists. As a rule, they are small in size and, moving in the air at a speed of several kilometers per second, completely burn out. And yet, about 5 tons of cosmic matter falls to Earth every day in the form of dust and fine grains of sand. Almost all space guests come to us from the so-called asteroid belt, which is located between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.
“A kind of garbage dump in the solar system, where all the debris is concentrated. Collisions between asteroids occur in this belt. As a result, some debris is formed that can acquire an orbit that intersects the Earth’s orbit,” said Mikhail Nazarov.
However, some scientists believe that it was not a meteorite that fell near Chelyabinsk at all. They are sure that no one will ever find any fragments, just as they did not find the fragments of the Tunguska meteorite. We are most likely talking about a cooled comet, which consists of frozen gases.
"If the nucleus of a first generation comet invades the Earth, then it almost completely burns up in the Earth's atmosphere, and it is impossible to find any remnants on the surface. This is similar to the Tunguska phenomenon, when no remnants of the body were found, but there was a large fall of forest over a large area and the trees were all heavily charred," said Vladislav Leonov, a researcher at the Department of Space Astrometry at the Institute of Astronomy of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Nevertheless, the search for the remains of a meteorite near Chelyabinsk continues. At the same time, not only rescuers and scientists are looking for, now dozens of meteorite hunters have already rushed to the area of the alleged fall. The price of some of them on the black market can reach up to several thousand rubles per gram.
Researchers from the United States (University of Arizona) again shocked the public. They said that a new space object is rushing towards the Earth - a mysterious ghost planet. It is also called planet X or the tenth, located on the outskirts of the solar system. This celestial body, according to scientists, threatens the life of mankind and all life on Earth. What is this planet? Where is it? What is its danger to us?
Ideas about the existence of planet X
Initially, the idea of the presence of an unknown planet or several similar space objects in our solar system originated in scientific circles not as a theory, but as a myth. She was supported by supporters of alternative directions. Back in the 50s of the last century, they started talking about the mysterious Nibiru, the tenth planet located somewhere between Mars and Jupiter.
These conversations began with the legend of the American psychiatrist with Russian roots Emmanuel Velikovsky. He connected everything that happens on Earth, including various changes, wars, cataclysms, revolutions, with the changes taking place in the solar system. He argued that in ancient times the planets changed their orbits and also collided in the universe. For example, Phaethon collided with a mysterious space object and collapsed, forming an asteroid belt in the region of Mars.
Later, through the efforts of another theorist, the writer Zecharia Sitchin, this idea became more popular. In particular, he said in his monograph that he had deciphered the tablets of the ancient Sumerians, which warned of the threat posed by a "wandering" planet, which they called Nibiru.
Prior to this, the scientist Lowell organized his own observatory and began to search for the undiscovered tenth planet of the solar system, which should exist. It was he who came up with the name Planet X and began to use it in science.
At the beginning of last year, two American planetary scientists Michael Brown and Konstantin Batygin found the tenth planet in the solar system (already the ninth, because Pluto lost its planetary status). They said that they calculated the coordinates of this object and named them (41 billion kilometers). This planet is ten times heavier than the Earth, therefore it was immediately associated with the mysterious mythical Nibiru, which was mentioned by the Sumerians.
According to researchers, this cosmic body of impressive size makes a complete revolution around the center of the galaxy - the Sun - in 15 thousand years. Due to the fact that it is very distant and rarely appears near the luminary, its exact location is still unknown.
Another researcher, David Meade, outlined his theories in his own scientific work, Planet X: Arrival in 2017. He suggested that this body (Nibiru) will crash into our Earth this fall. Other scientists, led by American planetary scientist Kat Walk, also reported that they had discovered a ghost planet. They found it after a long search in the Kuiper belt region (further than Neptune). There, the orbits of objects are deviated by eight degrees, which could be caused by the gravitational influence of a planet comparable in size to our red "neighbor" - Mars.
Hypotheses about the death of mankind from the "hands" of Nibiru
Conspiracy theorists continue to argue that the mysterious Nibiru brings us doom. They say that this ghost planet is already hurtling through the Kuiper belt at high speed, smashing everything in its path - dwarf planets, asteroids and comets. Because of it, they can move to the inner side of the solar system, starting the apocalypse and destroying all life.
At the same time, the asteroids, which are "pushed" by the Tenth Planet, are attracted by the huge Jupiter. It can “close” the path to the Earth for most of these cosmic bodies, but some will still fall into the orbit of our “cradle of mankind”. What will happen to them next is still unknown.
It is believed that in September of this year, planet X will pass through the constellation Virgo, and then completely close the Sun. In conclusion, it should also crash into our planet. Given its gigantic size, it will definitely wipe out all life from the face of the Earth. But this information is allegedly hushed up on purpose and hidden from the public so that there is no chaos and panic on the planet. The "powerful ones", according to the adherents of this theory, are hiding, preparing for an imminent catastrophe, and are preparing missions to Mars (for example, Elon Musk's company) or other objects for colonization.
True, there are rumors about a global catastrophe and the “end of the world” not only among the luminaries of science, but also among ordinary people. In them, the death of mankind was predicted several times already. A catastrophe on a universal scale in general should have occurred, if not in 2000, then definitely in December 2012 (according to the ancient Mayan calendar). But so far it has been postponed several times.
In turn, the agency, which is considered authoritative in space matters, NASA declares that talk of the apocalypse and death of people due to Nibiru or some other ghost planet is nothing more than "sensations", fantastic myths that have no basis real foundation.
The next approach to the Earth of a large asteroid forced the attention of many world and Russian media. We are talking about the "potentially dangerous" asteroid 2016 NF23, which is currently approaching our planet. However, nothing dangerous is expected in the upcoming approach, since, according to scientists, it will fly at a distance of almost 4.8 million kilometers, which corresponds to thirteen distances to the moon.
According to earlier estimates, its diameter is from 70 to 160 meters, which makes it larger than the pyramid of Cheops in height.
It is estimated that the speed of the asteroid at the time of approach to the Earth will be 9.04 kilometers per second, the report says.
It will become the third largest asteroid that will fly in the vicinity of our planet in early September - after asteroids 2001 RQ17 and 2015 FP118. The so-called near-Earth asteroids often approach our planet, while potentially dangerous are those that approach it at a distance of less than 0.05 astronomical units (2.9 million kilometers) and have a magnitude brighter than 22 magnitudes.
Asteroid 2016 NF23 was discovered on July 9, 2016, it belongs to the Aten group. It makes one revolution around the Sun in 240 Earth days or 0.66 Earth years, moving away from it at a maximum of 163 million kilometers and approaching 63 million kilometers.
By tradition, this group of asteroids was named after its first discovered representative, the asteroid (2062) Aten, which was discovered in January 1976. This is a group of near-Earth asteroids that cross the Earth's orbit from the inside. At the same time, although their orbits are inside the Earth's orbit, they cross it in the region of the Earth's perihelion.
Calculations show that the next meeting of the asteroid with the Earth will take place on September 3, 2020. On this day, it will fly at a distance of approximately 17.85 million kilometers.
In recent years, NASA observers have focused on tracking near-Earth asteroids larger than 140 meters, as it is believed that 90% of asteroids larger than one kilometer across have already been discovered.
Unlike large ones, only 10% of asteroids larger than 140 meters are currently open.
Another large asteroid approached Earth on the night of May 16th. Asteroid 2010 WC9 was first detected by the Catalina Sky Survey in November 2010 and remained visible until September 10, when its brightness waned and it was lost to sight. The data obtained then did not help to establish the parameters of the asteroid's orbit and predict the time of its return to Earth.
On May 8, 2018, the asteroid was discovered again, and scientists calculated the moment of its approach to the Earth. At 01:05 Moscow time, it flew at a distance of 203453 kilometers from the Earth, at that moment its apparent magnitude reached +11, which was enough for observation in amateur telescopes.
The other day, scientists from the University of New Mexico, the University of Arizona and the Johnson Space Center announced that a meteorite that fell in northern Africa turned out to be older than the Earth itself. They came to such conclusions in a paper published in the journal Nature Communications.
It is generally accepted that the solar system formed about 4.6 billion years ago when a cloud of gas and dust collapsed under the influence of gravity, possibly caused by the explosion of a nearby massive star or a supernova. As this cloud collapsed, a disk was formed, in the center of which was the future Sun. Since this period, scientists have been able to recreate the formation of the early solar system step by step.
Now, the discovery of the oldest meteorite of volcanic origin on Earth will add new details to this complex picture.
“This meteorite has the most significant age of any volcanic meteorite ever described,” said study co-author Card Agee. - Not only is it an extremely unusual type of rock, it tells us that not all asteroids look the same. Some look almost like a piece of the Earth's crust because they are so light-colored and rich in SiO2. Not only do they exist, but they formed during one of the very first volcanic events that took place in the early solar system.”
According to ufologists, the planet Nibiru, also known as Planet X, is a threat to life on Earth. This planet is classified as "Cosmogonic concept of Sumero-Akkadian mythology". The first collision of this year was predicted for September 19, however, due to its falling under the gravitational field of Jupiter, the planet slowed down a little. Some experts in the field of astronomy note that after Nibiru passes Jupiter, its movement towards the Earth will accelerate.
Where did the planet Nibiru come from
For many, this planet was previously unfamiliar. For the first time, data about it were found in the ancient manuscripts of the Sumerians. These people described the solar system in their own way, according to their data, the Milky Way consisted of 12 planets revolving around one large star - the Sun.
In the mythology of the Sumerians, Nibiru is a huge celestial body with an elongated orbit, it is located between Mars and Jupiter, crossing the solar system every 3.5 thousand years.
To date, no astronomer has physically seen Planet X. However, its existence has been calculated mathematically.
The planet Nibiru, the latest news of its location for 2018
According to the researchers, the meeting of our system with this body will take place between 2100 and 2158. Nevertheless, ufologists say that now this giant is flying faster and faster, bringing destruction and death to our planet.
According to the media, all over the Earth, people have observed a strange, red, round object in the sky. As proof, people cited video files and photographs of what they saw. Thanks to research, it was found that Nibiru is hundreds of thousands of times larger than the Sun.
Although some people can already see the approach of Nibiru with the naked eye, there are those who say that it is millions of light years from the Earth and does not threaten us in any way.
Where is the planet Nibiru now and when to approach the Earth
According to Koz Telegam, on October 15, 2018, in the United States of America, eyewitnesses noticed a blue planet with its accompanying Brown Dwarf. Those who have seen this phenomenon say that he was only visible for a couple of minutes, after which he disappeared.
Examining the obtained images, as well as the previously known information, scientists concluded that this is a whole star system, and not a separate planet, and just the Brown Dwarf is its basis.
This design has entered the solar system and is rapidly moving towards its center. In this regard, there are serious changes in the climate and general conditions on Earth. The influence of the Brown Dwarf, together with the Sun, gives an increase in temperatures, as a result of which air masses move and hurricanes are formed, as an example - the Atlantic. The closer Nibiru is to the Sun, the more irreversible climate change will be on our planet.
The planet Nibiru is not the last threat to earthly civilization
Everything can be. If not the planet Nibiru, then the Black Hole, which, according to experts, may appear near the Earth as a result of the collision of powerful gravitational waves.
Also, the end of the world may come in 2019, as a result of a collision with the cosmic body Apophis, which systematically flies very close to the Earth. It will pass critically close in 2036, its approach will be noticeable already 7 years before the collision.