Where is Nibiru today?

[Cydonian Monk]

I want to believe. 

 

 

 

Wait, no I don't. What did I miss? Wasn't Nibiru supposed to hit the Earth on Dec 12th, 2012? Or was that some other X-Planet?

I did actually see something rather bright and twinkling in the Houston sky last night, but it turned out to just be Arcturus. Would've been coming from the wrong direction to be Nibiru anyway, assuming Nibiru isn't going to hit Earth with enough force to eject the remaining scrap out of the Solar System retrograde. 

[adsii1970]

2 hours ago, Just Jim said:

I'm watching for a Magic Boulder...

I read somewhere that one of the wilder theories of Parallel Universes suggests by me writing Emiko Station, I have, in fact, created my own Emiko universe... somewhere.

If this is true, then I'm holding out for Emiko's Magic Boulder to suddenly appear in my backyard, and have Emiko pop out and say

"OK, come on..."

Right before Nibiru hits... 

 

Um, don't forget to come and get me...

[Ultimate Steve]

4 hours ago, Just Jim said:

I read somewhere that one of the wilder theories of Parallel Universes suggests by me writing Emiko Station, I have, in fact, created my own Emiko universe... somewhere.

Wait...

Does that mean that the Voyage: The Final Warning universe exists? And in order to make Ethan Edwards and his friends I just changed names and places... So that means I'm in space in a universe far, far away...

Plan Kappa exists... those poor Kerbals...

Project Intrepid? Yeah! Gigantic 1000 person spaceships!

Kuzzter's universe? I'd certainly want to go there!

 

Wait... If this happens for every story, then this is about to get complicated. Just of the stories I've written, there's a universe where:

• An asteroid hits earth and creates a megatsunami that wipes out basically everything...
• My high school used to be 15 stories tall but then spirits got in the way...
• The world successfully redirects a planet killing asteroid...
• Two scientists discover a substance that can interact with both matter and antimatter without it exploding and semi-accidentally make a bomb that destroys Earth but there's a kid with a time machine that saves the world and another kid who escapes a video game he's trapped in but there's this guy that's going to nuke the world so they steal the time machine to stop everything and then a weird country called Liki Liki nukes the world anyways but three kids from the US and Liki Liki make a spray that can reduce radioactivity and sort of save the world.
• Pieces of paper are sentient
• The universe was made by a guy out in the desert with a bunch of rocks to encode atoms in binary (yes, I stole that from XKCD).
• There was a steampunk space race using Solid Fuel between Britain and the US.
• The universe suddenly got 1000x smaller and if you touch a celestial body it shrinks, leading to cities being built on giant metal plates and the solar system eventually dying (I never finished that one, I barely started).
• A universe that is nothing other than the word TACOS over and over again...

I'm pretty sure that our universe isn't a story, however. If it is, it would be a pretty bad one.

The world accomplishes something... the world goes to war... future plans are cancelled... repeat.

 

[NSEP]

Its pretty much Friday (for me at least just 5 minutes) and there should be a bright light shining in the sky. Cant wait for the oceans to go fall upwards because of the gravitational pull.

[Vanamonde]

On 9/18/2017 at 7:12 PM, cubinator said:

 It should be visible near Saturn in the evening sky as a very bright planet if it approaches from behind Earth. I looked in that direction yesterday without seeing anything out of the ordinary, so be sure to let me know if you see anything that looks like a new planet!

Maybe it's a stealth planet. 

[cubinator]

Just now, Vanamonde said:

Maybe it's a stealth planet. 

Of course! How could I have missed this obvious fact? It can't be seen until it hits Earth, at which point it turns into every god from every human myth.

[Cydonian Monk]

Maybe OSIRIS-REx is actually Nibiru.....

[DarkOwl57]

1 hour ago, Vanamonde said:

Maybe it's a stealth planet. 

Yeah! It's like the F-22! It's got RADAR and Satellite-absorbing materials that keep us from seeing it! How could I have been so clueless?!

[adsii1970]

Maybe it is an excuse to sell books and create web traffic to an otherwise lame website...

[Vanamonde]

Okay, we've all had our laugh. (Me included.) Now let's get back to OP's question, which was about orbital mechanics rather than the feasibility of Nibiru. 

[LordFerret]

As you wish, @Vanamonde ...

According to Rob Sanders, a guy who wrote a mod for Celestia for Nibiru based on all data he could collect via various online sources...

Quote

# -------------------------------------------------
# ROB SANDERS PRODUCTION 2008
# Copyright Rob Sanders 2008
# http://members.chello.nl/r.sanders20/productions/
# Planet X - Nibiru Data version 1
# Released 11-07-2008 06:13:00
# by Rob Sanders, [email protected]
# -------------------------------------------------

From Rob's Planet-X .ssc file we have the following data to work with...

Quote

    EllipticalOrbit
    {
    Period           3600
    SemiMajorAxis     236
    Eccentricity      0.9917
    Inclination       -145
    AscendingNode   194.5
    ArgOfPericenter 270
        MeanAnomaly    150
    Epoch    374680.0
    Albedo    0.9
}

That should answer some of the questions the OP had. If there are additional questions about what all that stuff is, see the Celestia documentation.

As for Nibiru's actual location at this very moment, one could, if one wished to, download the free version of Celestia and the free mod of Rob's from the Motherload, install them and then run Celestia... the mod even has a cell link to take you there. You'll have that question answered "real-time". In fact, I just might, for ha ha's, fire my install up and watch the end as it happens - not.

[Kerbinchaser]

What? Huh? The world is ending?

 

OH MY G*D! HOLY FRICK! MOVE, EVERYONE, MOVE! WOMEN AND CHILDREN FIRST! GRAB THE KSP SAVE FILES! GO! GO! GO!

Edited September 23, 2017 by Lo Var Lachland

[nascarlaser1]

welp. The world is still here. There goes that theory XD.

[Just Jim]

not gonna lie... I was kinda hoping for a Magic Boulder to show up and save me... 

[GDJ]

Told you all.

[cubinator]

BREAKING: NIBIRU'S DENSITY MASSIVELY OVERESTIMATED

Scientists estimate actual mass to be slightly more than that of a teapot. One theory suggests there is a little bit of tea left...

Edited September 25, 2017 by cubinator

[KamenRiderzero1]

On 9/19/2017 at 12:31 AM, kerbiloid said:

 

Happily, we have pyramids. They will generate the protective field and deflect Nibiru, as always.

...You side with Ancient Egypt!?!

 

Someone alert Linkara!

(cookie if you get the joke)

[lajoswinkler]

Why exactly is this crap on the forum? I thought the crazies' stuff are not permitted here.

[munlander1]

1 hour ago, lajoswinkler said:

Why exactly is this crap on the forum? I thought the crazies' stuff are not permitted here.

I feel like it's related enough to not technically count as conspiracy. As it's about Planet X nibiur's orbital parameters. 

[adsii1970]

I can tell you where its not...

Edited September 26, 2017 by adsii1970

[Green Baron]

*Looks under desk*

Its not here ... ?

 

Unrelated to Nibiru, but a planet responsible for Mercury's wobbling was postulated in 19th century, was even "observed" by renowned astronomers of the time and dubbed ... Vulcan (Hi Leonard Nimoy ;-))

It "existed" until it fell victim to GR ...

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2015/11/151104-newton-einstein-gravity-vulcan-planets-mercury-astronomy-theory-of-relativity-ngbooktalk/

Was base for nice stories like a planet opposite in earths orbit, always hidden behind the sun, populated by dinos. Ignoring earth's orbit isn't circular and light is bend around the sun ;-)

Edited September 26, 2017 by Green Baron