The Dark Star: The Planet X Evidence (39 page)

During the heady days of the 2003 Planet X controversy, many
researchers claimed that the imminent threat of a perihelion passage of this
object could bring about global devastation. The most likely cause of such
cataclysms, it was argued, would be comet showers of Biblical magnitude. Planet
X carries with it an entire system of comets, asteroids and even moons and
planets. Despite the vast distances over which the solar system is laid out,
such an enormous retinue of potential impactors offers us a phenomenal threat.

If the comets don't get us, then another possibility is that the
sun's activity will shift into a different gear as a result of the presence of
Planet X amongst the planets. Massive solar super-storms would destroy
communications globally and send our climate into meltdown. Perhaps the
magnetic poles would reverse, or at least shift dramatically, bringing along
unknown consequences for life on this planet. Another possibility is that the
incoming swarms of comets might bring with them viruses which descend like a
deadly plague through our atmosphere.

For these reasons, argued the doom-sayers of Planet X lore, we
should take due precautions against the end of the world.

If you place the secrecy of the discovery of Planet X into this
context, then it is easy to see how a major conspiracy theory can emerge. Let
us entertain the possibility that the Government is well aware of the existence
of Nibiru, the Dark Star, Nemesis...call it what you will. Let us say that they
also recognize the threat posed by such an entity, and are charged with keeping
our society free from the kind of panic which could emerge if the worst case
scenarios listed above were, in fact, for real. Well, it seems plain to me that
full public knowledge of the discovery of Planet X and its terrifying
implications would be actively suppressed, with all necessary force.

In which case, astronomers hunting for this object would be in a
rather precarious position. Their data would be collected and placed into
computer files. Diligent agents of the Government would then monitor activity
on these computers, looking for the Big One, and have plenty of time to act on
it before a public announcement was made. After all, the scientists themselves
are not about to release their news without verifying it, which would take
months. This would provide the authorities with the intelligence needed to act
in time to prevent panic.

If one was to go to these extremes of paranoia, then one could
suggest that Dr Mike Brown's 'hacker' may have been official in nature...

Of course, this all reads like the screenplay of a bad science
fiction movie. Is this really very likely? Well, that depends on the nature of
Planet X. If it is a terrestrial planet which moves through the asteroid belt
during perihelion, as Zecharia Sitchin argues, then it is potentially dangerous
in its own right. But it must be far enough away from perihelion at the moment
to give us many, many years of warning between its discovery and its actual
perihelion. Such an object takes its time moving around the sun - it is not
going to suddenly turn up on our doorstep.

If Planet X is a bigger object, more in the Nemesis genre, then it
is less likely to be a direct threat. However, its indirect impact on our
planet might be just as bad over a longer period of time. The sheer magnitude
of this Dark Star in relation to the other planets of the solar system means
that it holds the balance of power among the worlds of the sun.

Even at great distances, it may affect us through orbital
diversification, or its movement through the various layers of the solar
magnetic field. It may even send us comet swarms by sweeping through parts of
the solar system dense with such objects, like the Edgeworth-Kuiper Belt. The
gap in the EKB might be due to such cosmic vacuuming in the past, with our
planet having been the sufferer of previous cataclysmic cometary fallouts. The
late, great bombardment 3.9 billion years ago would be an example.

My own opinion is that this Dark Star holds the key to long-term
shifts in the climate of the Earth, and that the changes we are currently
experiencing here on Earth may be symptomatic of adjustments in that cosmic
balance of power. In itself, this may not seem too threatening to our world, at
least compared to the threat of cometary bombardment. However, there is another
balance of power at stake here.

The world's energy needs have been met by petroleum for decades,
and the need for oil steadily increases as more of the world develops
industrial muscle. This inexorable rise in the emissions of greenhouse gases
means that we fear that we may start to get the taste of what it's like to live
on Venus. This is a divisive political and environmental issue.

But the climate of the world is not a stable commodity, and never
has been. It oscillates between great extremes, from Snowball Earth to poles
inhabited by dinosaurs. These changes weren't a result of the over-use of
fossil fuels. We know that for certain, at least.

Other more natural mechanisms dictate the Earth's terrifying
swings in climate, and the same seems to be true for other planets in the solar
system too. If the key to this mystery is the Dark Star, then its discovery
would have a great impact on the debate about climate change itself. We might start
to see the bigger picture for what it is.

There is a final consequence of discovery which would interest
Governments. If the Dark Star is indeed an integral part of ancient mythology,
then its discovery will pose deep questions for all of the world's religions.
It will change the way we look at ourselves and our place in the Cosmos.

This may take many years, possibly even generations, but there
would be a fundamental shift in our understanding of our own origins, and the
source of our beliefs. The myths which we have all been systematically fed
throughout our lives by society, and the religious and secular organizations we
hold dear, might finally be dispelled. But they would not be given up easily,
that's for sure.

This consideration, finally, may be more important to our futures
than any considerations about comet clouds or global warming. In our paranoid
times, the resultant instability may not be entirely welcomed by our already
twitchy Governments, or communities.

Like the scientists who innocently toiled away on the Manhattan
Project, our present day astronomers may be playing a game whose consequences
entirely transcend their own hopes and fears. Perhaps their scientific caution
and secrecy provide them with useful buffers, allowing them to consider the
wider consequences of their discoveries.

In this book, we have looked at the science that supports the
concept of a hidden binary companion. I have put forward a new formulation of
the older Nemesis theory, one that brings such a body closer to the solar
system. My Dark Star theory is a compromise between the Nemesis concept and the
more traditional considerations regarding a Planet X beyond Pluto.

This has allowed us to consider scientific evidence from the
Edgeworth-Kuiper Belt, which shows something massive has moved around beyond
the Kuiper Cliff. That evidence is mounting. It seems from the work of Alice
Quillen, that the truncation of the EKB relates to the activity of a
Jupiter-sized, or more massive, planet at some point in the past. I argue that
that planet is still orbiting the sun.

If I am right, then the Dark Star is not just another planet found
in the depths of the solar system. Its sheer size, mass, and the bizarre nature
of its orbit mean that it has a profound effect upon our world. It may turn out
to be the key to understanding the massive changes in our planet's climate over
the eons. It may help us to explain why the planets of the solar system,
including ours, seem to be warming up. This may lead us to revise our entire
understanding of global warming, and the imminent fate of our planet's climate.

Furthermore, if the Dark Star becomes visible during its
perihelion passage - through some kind of intensification of its activity as it
passes through the sun's extensive magnetic field - then its appearance in the
sky might provide us with a missing link in understanding many of the world's
oldest myths and legends. The discovery of the true nature of the visible
phenomenon named “Nibiru” would help to give credence to the other ideas
generated by Zecharia Sitchin.

At the beginning of this book, I highlighted my desire to
successfully blend myth and scientific reality. As far as interpretation of
myth is concerned, I have concentrated upon the work of Zecharia Sitchin in this
book, and gone on to explore how his theories might find a scientific mandate
as our knowledge of the solar system develops. It is beyond the scope of this
particular book to comprehensively explore the various other mythical sources
that might indicate the existence of an unseen planet in our system. There is
certainly plenty of fascinating material to consider, particularly in the more
eclectic realm of esoteric studies.

Such an investigation is a major undertaking, requiring a diligent
study of the complexities of myth and reality. But it is a study which shows
considerable promise, and I hope to provide my findings in a future book. For
instance, I have a great deal of interest in the association between esoteric
symbolism and the existence of a hidden binary companion. Studies in this
direction have revealed many potential insights about the secret knowledge of
the Dark Star.

Zecharia Sitchin's claims are interwoven with the proposed
existence of a substantial tenth planet, moving along a highly elliptical
orbit. Sitchin postulated that our species was bio-engineered by
flesh-and-blood gods, who traveled to Earth from Nibiru. They allegedly found
our ape-like ancestors and modified them to produce, in effect, intelligent
slaves capable of doing their bidding. We are the descendants of those
experiments, it would seem, abandoned to our fate after the Deluge failed to
entirely destroy our species.

It seems to me that the evolutionary development of our species
over the last few million years ran hand in hand with the last Ice Epoch, which
may or may not have now finished entirely. Arguments about the evolution of the
human species are complex, and often antagonistic.
^13,14,15
One could
argue that the evolution towards humanity represented a natural change, when
confronted with the environmental onset of an Ice Age.

After all, the onset of 'modern' humans over the past 100,000
years is coincident with the last Ice Age - with civilization sprouting during
the current interglacial (if that's what this warm period really is).

But it is also interesting to consider the following thought. If
the Ice Epoch began 4 million years ago because of a change in the orbit of the
Dark Star, then that might also have brought the Anunnaki to the planetary
solar system. This is because as the Earth and other planets moved slightly
further away from the sun, the Dark Star must have been migrating inwards. That
means that the planet Nibiru might have entered the planetary zone of the sun
for the first time in many millions of years.

This is a rather fantastic claim, and readers more focused upon
the science contained in this book may balk at such a suggestion. One can quite
understand such a reaction, and it is probably why the Planet X debate is
avoided by mainstream scientists for the most part. This association between
the potential physical reality of a massive Planet X, and questions about our
own origins, would become more profound should the Dark Star actually be
discovered. These are high stakes indeed.

¹
P. Dauber & R. Muller “The Three Big Bangs: Comet Crashes,
Exploding Stars and the Creation of the Universe” Chapter 8, Addison Wesley
1996

²
R. Muller “Nemesis - The Death Star” Weidenfield & Nicholson,
1988

³
D. Raup “The Nemesis Affair, A Story of the Death of the
Dinosaurs and the Ways of Science” W.W. Norton, 1986

⁴
R. Grieve in Ann NY Acad Sci, vol 822, p338, 1997; Kyte et al
"New evidence on the size and possible effects of a late Pliocene oceanic
impact", Science, 241, 63-65, 1998

⁵
S. Ward & E Asphaug "Asteroid Impact Tsunami - A
Probabilistic Hazard Assessment", submitted to Icarus 2000

⁶
S. Ward & E. Asphaug "Impact Tsunami - Eltanin",
submitted to Deep Sea Research - Oceanic Impacts, 2000

⁷
U.K Government "Report of the Task Force on Potentially Hazardous
Near Earth Objects", p18, British National Space Centre, September 2000

⁸
C. Knight & R. Lomas “Uriel's Machine” pp95-100, Arrow 2000

⁹
M. Mukerjee "The Scarred Earth" Scientific American
292, No. 3, p8-10, March 2005

¹⁰
David Tytell "Astronomers Discover "Tenth Planet"
Sky and Telescope, 29th July 2005
http://skyandtelescope.com/news/article_1560_1.asp

¹¹
Robin McKie "The Little Rock Causing a Galactic Storm"
The Observer, 31st July 2005

¹²
Michael Brown, Caltech "Astronomers at Palomar Observatory
Discover a 10th Planet Beyond Pluto", with thanks to Mattia Galiazzo
http://www.gps.caltech.edu/%7Embrown/planetlila/index.html

¹³
M. Behe “Darwin's Black Box” Touchstone 1996

¹⁴
A. Walker & P. Shipman “The Wisdom of Bones” Weidenfield
& Nicholson 1996

¹⁵
L. Pye “Everything You Know is Wrong” Adamu Press 1997