It's certainly possible that such an event might have caused a perturbation of the Oort Cloud, sending comets down towards the Sun from the previously stable orbits, although astronomers are not convinced that this would have been as dramatic as one might imagine (the outer Oort Cloud being extremely diffuse at this distance).  It's also of great interest to note that this event happened during the near Pleistocene, commensurate with the presence of modern humans on our planet.  Perhaps Scholz's star was close enough to be a significant stellar spectacle in the sky.

"Astronomers have identified the closest known flyby of a star to our solar system: A dim star that passed through the Oort Cloud 70,000 years ago. A group of astronomers from the US, Europe, Chile and South Africa have determined that 70,000 years ago a dim star is likely to have passed through the solar system's distant cloud of comets, the Oort Cloud (image above). No other star is known to have ever approached our solar system this close - five times closer than the current closest star, Proxima Centauri.

"The star's trajectory suggests that 70,000 years ago it passed roughly 52,000 astronomical units away (or about 0.8 light years, which equals 8 trillion kilometers, or 5 trillion miles). This is astronomically close; our closest neighbor star Proxima Centauri is 4.2 light years distant. In fact, the astronomers explain in the paper that they are 98% certain that it went through what is known as the "outer Oort Cloud" - a region at the edge of the solar system filled with trillions of comets a mile or more across that are thought to give rise to long-term comets orbiting the Sun after their orbits are perturbed.

"While the close flyby of Scholz's star likely had little impact on the Oort Cloud, Mamajek points out that "other dynamically important Oort Cloud perturbers may be lurking among nearby stars." The recently launched European Space Agency Gaia satellite is expected to map out the distances and measure the velocities of a billion stars. With the Gaia data, astronomers will be able to tell which other stars may have had a close encounter with us in the past or will in the distant future.

"Currently, Scholz's star is a small, dim red dwarf in the constellation of Monoceros, about 20 light years away. However, at the closest point in its flyby of the solar system, Scholz's star would have been a 10th magnitude star - about 50 times fainter than can normally be seen with the naked eye at night. It is magnetically active, however, which can cause stars to "flare" and briefly become thousands of times brighter. So it is possible that Scholz's star may have been visible to the naked eye by our ancestors 70,000 years ago for minutes or hours at a time during rare flaring events. The star is part of a binary star system: a low-mass red dwarf star (with mass about 8% that of the Sun) and a "brown dwarf" companion (with mass about 6% that of the Sun). Brown dwarfs are considered "failed stars;" their masses are too low to fuse hydrogen in their cores like a "star," but they are still much more massive than gas giant planets like Jupiter."" (1)

If one had asked astronomers only a few years ago whether they thought it was possible that a star had skimmed the edge of the solar system within the time period of modern humans, then I suspect they would have sneered at the possibility.  Now, though, they seem open to finding other 'perturbers' out there, awaiting discovery.

"After further research on chapters 1&2 in the Lost Book of Enki, and comparison to the charts posted on your web site seem to be consistent with Alalu's description and position, I've come accept that your analogy is 100% correct.  Nibiru is part of the Dark star system!  Which has just pass Jupiter on its way out of the system while the ferry which is Nibiru, is moving in pass Neptune on it way to Uranus.  When do you think it will Arrive? or if it will come this far into the system at all this circuit? Hard to tell with MS world telescope" (1)

He has subsequently sent me this image which he thinks might be of Nibiru. 

November 2014

• Back in June 2013, Lando offered me the following coordinates for Nibiru (taken from the Microsoft World telescope) (5):  RA: 06H 08M 55s  DEC: 22: 47: 06

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• And also for the 'ferry' (6):   RA : 22H 45M 40s      DEC -08: 12:00

The true nature of Nibiru remains a point of conjecture.  There is no argument that it is referred to in the ancient Mesopotamian texts (2) in a planetary, or at least cosmic capacity.  Sumerologists have provided many explanations for the name, preferring generally that Nibiru refers simply to the planet Jupiter, ignoring its association with the colour red.  The great cosmic battle between Marduk and Tiamat lie at the core of this mystery, for which Marduk earned the name 'Nibiru':

"... the star, which shineth in the heavens.

May he [Marduk] hold the Beginning and the Future, may they pay homage unto him,

Saying, "He who forced his way through the midst of Tiamat without resting,

Let his name be Nibiru, 'the Seizer of the Midst'!

For the stars of heaven he upheld the paths" (2)

Marduk's presence in the heavens was truly awe-inspiring.  No pottering white planet this:

"He set the lightning in front of him,

With burning flame he filled his body" (2)

Personally, I think that Marduk is a more powerful planet than even Jupiter, and proposed many years ago that this mysterious celestial object was actually a failed star, or sub-brown dwarf (3,4), an idea that has become an important revision to Sitchin's controversial theory over the last decade or two.  The exact nature of 'Nibiru' remains a mystery.  Perhaps it is simply the sub-brown dwarf Marduk passing through the solar system periodically.  Perhaps it is an outlying terrestrial planet of the sub-brown dwarf system passing through the planetary zone as Marduk skims its boundaries - hence the ancient moniker 'ferry'.  Either way, its appearance is not that of one of the regular planets.  Instead, the 'star' appears to be surrounded by some kind of aura, or halo, swept back by the powerful solar winds to create the classic Winged Disk look.

Up until this month, there had been no scientific precedent for a planet taking on the appearance of a comet.  Now we know that such an object does exist; a  Neptune-size planet that lies about 33 light years away in the constellation Leo, and known as GJ 436b (5).  It was detected using the Hubble Space Telescope and Chandra X-ray Observatory.  Unlike Nibiru, GJ 436b is a relatively small 'Hot Jupiter' gas giant swinging around its parent red dwarf star in a very tight circle whose radius is a puny 3 million kilometres.  The cloud of gas emanating from this boiling world is truly awe-inspiring, at about 50 times the volume of the parent star:

"The cloud of gas around GJ 436b, made up mostly of hydrogen, has a circular head that surrounds GJ 436b, and a tail trailing behind the planet. The diameter of the head is about 1.8 million miles (3 million km), or five times the width of the host star, which is about half that of the sun. The length of the tail is uncertain, because the research team's observations do not cover it entirely, but their computer models suggest it could be about 9.3 million miles (15 million km) long.

"The scientists estimated that GJ 436b is currently blowing off up to 1,000 tons of gas per second. This means that GJ 436b is currently losing about 0.1 percent of its atmosphere every billion years, which is far too slow a rate to deplete its atmosphere in the lifetime of its parent red dwarf star. However, when the star was more active in its infancy, the researchers estimated that GJ 436b could have lost 10 percent or more of its atmosphere during its first billion years." (6)

The last paragraph of the above quoted article is important to scientists because they wonder whether the small rocky worlds found very close to parent stars began life as much larger gas giants whose gases were blown off early on in the life of the parent star.  What is perhaps more interesting to Sitchinite proponents is the anomalous appearance of a Neptune-sized gas giant skimming close to a parent star.  It's all the more surprising considering that the parent star is a relatively cool red dwarf. 

“What we see is the planet kind of turning into an enormous monster much bigger than its star,” Dr. Ehrenreich said.  The star is much fainter than our sun, and the evaporating gases are not swept away. Instead, the star “allows the huge cloud to gather".  (7)

It seems likely that many more of these kinds of planets will be imaged in the future as scientists turn their attention to 'Super-Earths' and 'Mini-Neptunes' in the years ahead, aided by new powerful telescopes coming on line (6).

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