[CTRL] Is It the Sumerian Nibiru Predicted By Zecharia Sitchin?
-Caveat Lector- NEW EVIDENCE FOR POSSIBLE HUGE PLANET BEYOND PLUTO Is It the Sumerian Nibiru Predicted By Zecharia Sitchin? The astronomy world buzzed with excitement on October 7 as newly announced evidence from two separate research teams appeared to confirm the existence of a huge planet-like body far beyond the orbit of Pluto. For decades, astronomers have speculated that such a planet must exist. "Wobbles" in the known outer planets seem to require it. Now, observations of incoming comets apparently ejected from the extremely remote Oort Cloud by some strong gravitational force lend credence to the idea of a giant planet circling our solar system at a distance of perhaps three trillion miles, or half a light year. Dr. John Murray of Britain's Open University has been studying the behavior of so-called long period comets for decades. He has focused attention on thirteen such comets whose behavior suggests the gravitational action of a large body near the Oort Cloud, a field of primordial rock, ice and dust that envelopes the entire solar system. Speaking to BBC News Online, Murray said, "Although I have only analysed 13 comets in detail, the effect is pretty conclusive. I have calculated that there is only about a one in 1,700 chance that it is due to chance." In a research paper to be published in mid-October in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Murray suggests that the so-far unseen planet is several times larger than Jupiter. Furthermore, he says, the planet appears to orbit the sun in the "wrong" direction, opposite the orbit of all the known planets. This could mean that the huge object may be a so-called "rogue planet" that drifted in from very deep space and was captured by the sun's gravity. Similar conclusions have been separately reached by physicists John Matese, Daniel Whitmire and Patrick Whitman at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. They too were watching the oddly orderly behavior of certain long period comets and began to suspect that a very large body was moving near the Oort Cloud. "We were driven to this by rejecting everything else we could think of," Daniel Whitmire told ABC News. The findings of John Matese and colleagues will be published in an upcoming edition of the journal Icarus. In that article, Matese refers to the object as possibly a "brown dwarf" and estimates its mass at three times that of Jupiter. According to Murray, if the presumed planet were in a circular orbit, it would take nearly six million years to circle the sun. Also, despite its enormous size, it would be extremely faint, giving off no light of its own, and probably could not be detected even by the Hubble Telescope. But the next generation of space-based telescopes, which would include ultra-sensitive infrared sensors, might be able to find it. Meanwhile, the discussion of a huge new planet has aroused the particular interest of researchers familiar with the work of Sumerian scholar Zecharia Sitchin. In a series of books called "The Earth Chronicles," Sitchin has eloquently argued that the ancient Sumerian civilization knew very well about this huge outer planet and described it -- and its extraterrestrial inhabitants, whom they called the Anunnaki or Nefilim -- in great detail. Indeed, says Sitchin, the very origin and early history of the human race are intimately tied to this planet, which the Sumerians called Nibiru. Neil Freer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) has studied Sitchin's work for more than two decades and has written a book, "Breaking the Godspell" (Falcon Press, 1987), in which he further develops the possible implications of Nibiru's influence upon past and current humanity. On hearing of the discoveries of David Murray, John Matese et al, Freer wasted no time publicly pointing out the obvious parallels with the predicted existence of Nibiru. Freer's open letter to BBC Online News Science Editor Dr. David Whitehouse, posted to the internet, provides a brief but authoritative introduction to Sitchin's ideas and to the history of scientific discoveries in support of the reality of Nibiru. Freer has granted permission to CNI News to reproduce his letter to Whitehouse in full, as follows: Re: Announcement by Dr. John Murray, UK's Open University of possible tenth planet in our solar system through analysis of cometary data I wish to call to your attention that Zecharia Sitchin, Sumerian scholar and author of the Earth Chronicle Series of books, revealed the existence, size, orbit, and detailed characteristics of the tenth planet in our solar system 25 years ago through the translation of the Enuma Elish (When in the heights), a major document unearthed at the archaeological digs at Nineveh by Layard, and translated by L.W. King. It gives a complete account of the formation of our solar system, including the gravitational capture into the system of this tenth planet (known to the Sumerians as Nibiru and the Babylonians as Marduk); its subsequent collision
Re: [CTRL] Is It the Sumerian Nibiru Predicted By Zecharia Sitchin?
I wish to call to your attention that Zecharia Sitchin, Sumerian scholar and author of the Earth Chronicle Series of books, revealed the existence, size, orbit, and detailed characteristics of the tenth planet in our solar system 25 years ago through the translation of the Enuma Elish (When in the heights), a major document unearthed at the archaeological digs at Nineveh by Layard, and translated by L.W. King. It gives a complete account of the formation of our solar system, including the gravitational capture into the system of this tenth planet (known to the Sumerians as Nibiru and the Babylonians as Marduk); its subsequent collision with a large planet, Tiamat, orbiting then between Mars and Jupiter; the formation of the asteroid belt, comets and meteorites from the impact; [and] the translation of the larger part of the impacted native planet into our orbit to become Earth. The Enuma Elish says that the intruder planet settled into a huge elliptical orbit of 3600 years around our sun in the "wrong" direction, counter to the orbital direction of the other planets, [and] that it returns to the inner solar system through the asteroid belt area periodically. It gives the details of the path it can be observed taking through the constellations as it approaches and the disruptive events its close passing causes on Earth. Shame on you, Neil Freer. Hasn't anyone here actually READ the Enuma Elish? It "says" no such thing -- unless you take every statement in it as meaning something OTHER than what it LITERALLY says -- for example, a "god" who walks around on earth like a human being (Marduk) in the REST of Sitchin's tales is HERE suddenly RE-interpreted as a PLANET, and words or names that EVERYWHERE ELSE in the Sumerian texts have ONE meaning, in THIS case acquire a DIFFERENT meaning. A la Sitchin's intriguing but absurd RETRANSLATION of the Semitic word "shem." "Unto you a child shall be born, and ye shall call his [ROCKETSHIP] Jacob"?! I'm presenting here a decent translation of the Enuma Elish --which is not SUMERIAN but BABYLONIAN, composed no earlier than 1200 BC-- so that you can all read it for yourselves. Then tell me how "scholarly" Zecharia Sitchin has behaved any differently from Erich von Daniken, who would point to a Mayan picture of a reclining man amid symbolic gobbledegook and then "reveal" to us that what it "really" portrayed was an astronaut sitting in a space capsule (never mind that, according to its inscription, it might portray a specifically named king living 800 AD, no spacecraft ever noticed) ... ___ from http://www.angelfire.com/tx/gatestobabylon/index.html THE BABYLONIAN EPIC OF CREATION: THE ENUMA ELISH This long poem was written principally in the 12th Century BC to celebrate the city of Babylon. It recounts the creation of the universe and the events that lead up to the building of Babylon, home for the gods. It evolved from Sumerian myths and th e text that it is taken from is Assyrian, an empire that followed the Sumerian. The almost complete text is set out on seven tablets wih about 150 lines on each tablet. It was written probably to be sung at festivals in honour of the gods and Babylon. In its original language, it is written with no rhyme or alliteration but with some assonance that lends it a hypnotic sound. It probably sounded similar to Georgian chants in being sung by several voices. The poem was translated by N. K Sandars. __ When there was no heaven, no earth, no height, no depth, no name, when Apsu was alone, the sweet water, the first begetter; and Tiamat the bitter water, and that return to the womb, her Mummu, when there were no gods- When sweet and bitter mingled together, no reed was plaited, no rushes muddied the water, the gods were nameless, natureless, futureless, then from Apsu and Tiamat in the waters gods were created, in the waters silt precipitated, Lahmu and Lahumu, were named; they were not yet old not yet grown tall when Anshar and Kishar overtook them both, the lines of sky and earth stretched where horizons meet to separate cloud from silt. Days on days, years on year passed till Anu, the empty heaven, heir and supplanter, first-born of his father, in his own nature begot Nudimmud-Ea, intellect, wisdom, wider than heaven's horizon, the strongest of all the kindred. Discord broke out among the gods although they were brothers, warring and jarring in the belly of Tiamat, heaven shook, it reeled with the surge of the dance; Apsu could not silence the clamour, their behavior was bad, overbearing and proud. But still Tiamat lay inert till Apsu, the father of gods, bellowed for that servant who clouds his judgment, his Mummu, 'Dear counselor, come with me to Taimat.' They have gone, and in front of Tiamat they sit down and talk together about the young gods, their first-born children; Apsu said,
