If you subsist through the apocalypse of 2012 , the second Revelation of 2012 , and the apocalypse of 2017 , there ’s a prospect the name Nibiru may ring a bell .

According to doomsayers and conspiracy theorists , Nibiru is a major planet within our Solar System that will one day gibe into Earth , ending liveliness as we bed it . The planet , supposedly discovered by the Sumerians , has an ambit that occupy it airless to Earth every3,600 years .

That idea in itself is n’t quite coolheaded enough for conspiracy theoretician , who of course went on to predict that the planet would dinosaur the human beings . The predictors made the mistake of prefer dates that the satellite would hit us , include the " end " of the Maya calendar on December 21 , 2012 . While the Mayalong - reckoning perioddid end on this date , there was of line no understanding to consider that that the human race would finish too . When you get to December 31 , you do n’t scream " WE’RE ALL go TO DIE , " but get out a unexampled calendar , just as the Maya calendar would lead off a new long - count period .

Sure enough , the satellite did not strike us in 2012 , nor in2017when cabal theorists chip in naming a date another go . The reason for this lack of shock is that the major planet does not survive .

" Nibiru and other stories about obstinate planets are an net hoax . There is no actual basis for these claims,“NASAexplained patiently in 2012 . " If Nibiru or Planet X were veridical and headed for an encounter with the Earth [ … ] astronomers would have been tracking it for at least the past decade , and it would be visible by now to the raw eye . Obviously , it does not live . "

While there is debate about whether the Solar System shield a hiddenPlanet 9beyond the orbit of Neptune , according to professor of planetary astronomy at the California Institute of Technology Mike Brown , if Nibiru were on the elongated orbit described by fans , we would have encounter it by now . But more importantly , it would n’t have been there long .

" If the planet had the orbit that is attribute to it , it would only last for about a million years before it hail too close to Jupiter and got ejected out of the solar system , " he wrote on hiswebsite .

If that is n’t enough for you , it is deserving noting that the parentage of the Nibiru mankind - ending cabal is Nancy Lieder , who calls herself a psychic and start confederacy hypothesis websiteZetatalk , where she covers such subject as " how visitors from other Worlds are watched by the Council of Worlds " and " why aliens can disappear and move through walls " .

Which might be fun if you ’re into that variety of thing , but let ’s just say we would n’t be going to Lieder for any planetary astronomy update .