Today at work a co-worker told me of an email she received. It told of a Planet X that was going to pass by earth sometime next year. The email also said that the planet Earth will stop spinning for 3 days and that 70% of the earth’s population will die as a result. She is going to email the story to me but I have not yet received it yet. With the dire consequences that Planet X will bring upon the Earth, why isn’t the news media telling us about it? For 2 years we heard of the damage Y2K was going to cause and it turned out to be a non event. It doesn’t even rate very high in a Google search. Is this something we really need to worry about?
Not in the slightest.
And of course, even if it were going to happen (don’t worry, it won’t; first of all, we need a planet X, for one thing), why worry about it? It’s not like there’s much we could do…
If it makes you rest any easier, a planet passing close to Earth wouldn’t cause it to stop spinning. It would change its orbit so 100% of life either freezes or cooks or both.
Let me just say that the people espousing Planet X appear to be, on the surface, total nutjobs. Read, for example, the lengthy article at:
http://survivalcenter.com/LatestMarkH020102.html
You’ll learn that observatories are closing for remodeling so as to avoid showing people Planet X, that our sun has a “dark twin,” whatever that means, and that “the majority of the earthchange intuitives prophecies are tied into or name Planet X.” (Please note that I cut and pasted quoted text, so all errors are the original author’s, not mine. If I mark them all with [sic], we’ll still be here long after Planet X has gone the way of the dodo.)
To me, this points less towards a mysterious planet zinging towards Earth and more towards a guy who has forgotten his medication. You can make up your own mind, though.
Some other Planet X sites:
Dew’s Links, which offers a countdown until Nibiru’s return (apparently Planet X has a name after all). It also offers many links. Carefully peruse these links and you’ll probably feel a lot better about the impending return of Planet X.
Zecharia Sitchin’s official site. Sitchin is, according to one of the links above, “the world renowned scholar, author of “The 12th Planet” and archeologist,” who acknowledges the impending return of Planet X, but only sometimes, because he has such scientific authority that he’ll scare everyone. Given that his front page topic right now posits aliens as the intelligent designers of life on Earth, I’m not trusting this guy for in-depth analysis of anything.
Zetatalk, which screams reliability, from the logo (one of those alien drawings) on up. The front page text is rather strange, but near as I can make out, these people not only believe in aliens but everything they’ve read in SF novels, too. ("[V]isitors from other Worlds are watched by the Council of Worlds, which has set Rules regulating their behavior." And let’s not forget “the Hybrids being developed by the Zetas to merge the best from both Zetans and Humans.”)
So… The Earth is going to start spinning again after three days? How? 
Gosh-diddly-darnit, why do you guys get all the good spam?
Planets reflect light, and unless this planet’s made out of finely-ground coal dust, we’re gonna see it coming from a really long way away.
Actually, this was well documented quite a while ago by Philip Wylie and Edwin Balmer, although they called the renegade planet “Bronson Alpha,” not “Planet X” or “Nibiru.”
The only problem with Planet X is its residents. I hear they carry Illudium Q-36 Explosive Space Modula-tors.
Marvin wasn’t a resident of Planet X, he only went there to get Illudium Phosdex, the shaving cream atom. Hmm. Yes.
Then we shouldn’t have to worry for another three and a half centuries, right?
<falls off lift pad>
Dont you guys know that planet X is the birthplace of Mecha Godzilla?!?!
I thought it was the waterless planet of the guys who wore sunglasses and dryer tubing, and couldn’t stand loud noise…
Ranchoth
An observatory was built in Arizona in the late 1800s specifically to search for an elusive “Planet X” whose existance was suspected by astronomers. I’m sure all of America heard about this expensive “search for Planet X” through the media of that time. After several decades Pluto was discovered and identified as the elusive Planet X. Unfortunately some morons, who only knew that a search was on for Planet X, didn’t get the message that it had been found. An urban legend was born and expanded on and we still have nutcases a hundred years later babbling about it. In summary, Planet X was found and named Pluto.
is it Ming the Merciless about to crash Mongo into the earth?
can we expect hot hail and tidal waves as forerunners?
and cool red skies?
im looking forward to this
“I love you, but we only have 14 hours to save the earth…”
“Well documented”, you say? The you wouldn’t mind providing a link to this documentation, would you?
I thought Planet X was where Ghiderah and the Controllers lived.
–Nut
Bugs Bunny: "Uh, pardon me doc, but just what did you mean about that crack about ‘the Earth being gone?’ "
Marvin: “Oh, I’m going to blow it up. It obstructs my view of Venus.”
Yep. They just documented it. The astronomer who actually discovered them was Emery (sp?) Bronson.
And even if it was made of finely-ground coal dust, Anthracite would be able to see it coming, so we’re safe…
A link to the admirable scholarly treatise to which Mjollnir refers.
In fact, we’d probably notice even it were covered in finely-ground coal dust; the planet Mercury is slightly less reflective than the Moon and that’s darker than coal dust. Yet it’s visible enough.