Shadi Abdel-Hafiz

During the past few months, many terrifying news have spread on the Internet about a planet called "Nibiru" that is approaching Earth and will collide with it soon, which means the end of life on its surface completely. Could this be true?

Who came from heaven
In fact, that news is not new, but is repeated every year in December, and it was at the height of 2012, when some interpreted a group of texts of the ancient Mayan civilization as referring to the end of the world this year because of the approaching of one of the planets from Earth, which is what It will cause extreme volcanoes, earthquakes, and hurricanes to end human life.

One of the founders of that idea is called Zakaria Station, an American writer of Russian origin who used to see that aliens placed humans on the surface of the earth, and said that a planet is approaching Earth and may collide with it soon.

In fact, all of the news on social media is myth, and there is no evidence for it.

According to NASA, there are several obvious reasons why we are so certain.

Why is it just a myth?
For example, the approach of another planet to Earth means that it will be visible in the sky for a long period of time, several months to years, where it is assumed that any person who has a telescope will be able to notice this strange phenomenon once the planet reaches the orbit of Saturn, for example.

This means that he was supposed to see the telescopes of astronomers around the world, not just the space agencies. Anyone who has a medium telescope can simply notice his presence, and there are tens of thousands of astronomers who own telescopes around the world, including the author of this report.

Allegations that Nibiru is orbiting the Sun every 3,600 years cannot be correct (NASA)

On the other hand, the passage of a relatively large planet among other planets would have had a very clear effect on its orbits, so that astronomers and some astronomers would have observed this from very long distances, and thus "Nibiru" is not even among the eight planets of the solar system.

Also, those claims that "Nibiru" takes orbit around the sun every 3600 years cannot be correct, since the presence of a planet that penetrates the orbits of other planets in this way would have pushed the planetary system around the sun to collapse from billions of years ago, and therefore this planet does not exist from the foundation.

"Planet 9" and the horror of Corona
Some try to link the myth of "Nibiru" and what we now know as "Planet 9", but the latter is a hypothetical object that some scientists expect to exist in the outer framework of the solar system due to some anomalies in the orbits of the post-Neptune bodies.

But assuming the existence of "Planet 9", when it is close to the sun, it becomes about 4-5 times the distance between the sun and Neptune itself, which means that it is far from Earth and cannot interfere with the orbits of the planets.

And in times of societal panic such as those we live in now because of the new corona, myths spread among people intensively, because fear allows our minds to accept ideas before treating them in any logical or rational way, and the promotion of these false news without certainty raises the degree of terror in people and no one in need of that now Sufficient for them, what they are in.