overhead in the early-morning eastern sky, in the constellation Cetus," said Brown, who made
the discovery with colleagues Chad Trujillo, of the Gemini Observatory in Mauna Kea, Hawaii,
and David Rabinowitz, of Yale University, New Haven, Conn., on January 8.
Brown, Trujillo and Rabinowitz first photographed the new planet with the 48-inch Samuel
Oschin Telescope on October 31, 2003. However, the object was so far away that its motion was
not detected until they reanalyzed the data in January of this year. In the last seven months, the
scientists have been studying the planet to better estimate its size and its motions.
"It's definitely bigger than Pluto," said Brown, who is a professor of planetary astronomy.
Scientists can infer the size of a solar system object by its brightness, just as one can infer the
size of a faraway light bulb if one knows its wattage. The reflectance of the planet is not yet
known. Scientists can not yet tell how much light from the sun is reflected away, but the amount
of light the planet reflects puts a lower limit on its size.
"Even if it reflected 100 percent of the light reaching it, it would still be as big as Pluto," says
Brown. "I'd say it's probably one and a half times the size of Pluto, but we're not sure yet of the
final size.
"We are 100 percent confident that this is the first object bigger than Pluto ever found in the
outer solar system,” Brown added.
A name for the new planet has been proposed by the discoverers to the International
Astronomical Union, and they are awaiting the decision of this body before announcing the name.
A New Doctrine
Religious texts and mythologies from all quarters hint of something really big happening at the
end of things. In the bible it says “The end days will be as the beginning days’, but what was at
the beginning?
The Sumerians tell us that it was an enormous and devastating cosmic collision.
Is that what the end times will be? Is that why the ancients were so obsessed with the calendar
and the movements of the planets? Was it to track these orbital periods so these times of mass
extinction could be predicted? Is that why they dealt with such enormously long periods of time?
A good deal of the evidence that we have previously discussed says it may well be so. If the
Mayan Long Count was indeed started by Thoth could that be the reason why it is a count of
432,000 years? The Sumerians tell us that this same period of time 120 shars or 432,000 years is
the time that had passed since the arrival of the Anunnaki and the deluge. Are these types of
events to be expected when another 120 shars has passed?
The bible and many other texts say that the end times will be as the beginning times. The
Sumerians say cosmic collision. It seems apparent that Nibiru seems to cause a great deal of
mayhem to the inner planets not on its every passage, but certainly every few orbits and a new
planet has just now come into view in our solar system.
It is urgent that some group of scientists and mathematicians begin constructing a computer
simulation to see exactly what the orbit of this new solar member is and what harm the close
passage of such a celestial body may actually cause.
However, the real path to safety and building a harmonious future for our race and our planet
lies in the education of the people; Mass education, on a global scale, if mankind is to survive.
Education is mans greatest natural resource.
Remember how the Mayans claim to have had an earlier, harmonious and scientific approach
to worship that they had received from Quetzalcoatl but over many years it had become overtly
permutated and corrupted by other influences? It is this Authors opinion that an extremely
valuable lesson can be learned from that story, for it seems that though traces of the ancient
beliefs still run through modern religions with noticeable starkness, the stories themselves have