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http://astrobiology.nasa.gov/ask-an-astrobiologist/intro/nibiru-and-doomsday-2012-questions-and-answers
http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/2012.html
1. What is the origin of the prediction that the world will end in December 2012?
The story started with claims that Nibiru, a supposed planet discovered by the Sumerians,
is headed toward Earth. Zecharia Sitchin, who writes fiction about the ancient
Mesopotamian civilization of Sumer, claimed in several books (e.g., The Twelfth Planet,
published in 1976) that he has found and translated Sumerian documents that identify the
planet Nibiru, orbiting the Sun every 3600 years. These Sumerian fables include stories
of “ancient astronauts” visiting Earth from a civilization of aliens called the Anunnaki. Then
Nancy Lieder, a self-declared psychic who claims she is channeling aliens, wrote on her
website Zetatalk that the inhabitants of a fictional planet around the star Zeta Reticuli
warned her that the Earth was in danger from Planet X or Nibiru. This catastrophe was
initially predicted for May 2003, but when nothing happened the doomsday date was
moved forward to December 2012. Only recently have these two fables been linked to the
end of the Mayan long-count at the winter solstice in 2012 – hence the predicted
doomsday date of December 21, 2012 |
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