Could This Be Planet-X?...04/12/01
by Mitch Battros (ECTV)

An article just published by Sky & Telescope sounds hauntingly familiar. After one of our viewers, Vincent Gambacorta
brought this to my attention, I had a closer look which was quite alarming.

Author J. Kelly Beatty, in their reference to a celestial body known as '2000 CR105', states this orb has a 3,300 year
elliptical orbit. Sound familiar? Yes indeed. It is very close to the same "Nibiru" which Zecharia Sitchin has detailed in his
books, beginning with The 12th Planet (1976) and even more so in Genesis Revisited and The Cosmic Code, the
Anunnaki came to Earth some 450,000 years ago from the planet Nibiru – a member of our own solar system whose
great orbit brings it to our part of the heavens once every 3,600 years. http://users.lycaeum.org/~martins/nibiru.html

With having this information as a background, read carefully as perhaps through the eyes of a modern day astronomer. An

uncanny picture begins to form. Could this be the infamous "Nibiru"? Of course there in no way of knowing this, but it
does cause one to imagine if such an event was to begin unraveling. I am a firm believer in ancient text. In this case it is the
documentation of the Sumarians. http://www.eliki.com/ancient/civilizations/sumerian/content.htm As so often, only time
will tell.

Keep an open mind but be discerning. Remember, follow your truth, not mine or anyone else. (MB)

Big Orbit Object Confounds Dynamicists
By J. Kelly Beatty - Sky & Telescope

The distant object 2000 CR105 takes roughly 3,300 years to loop completely around the Sun. Right now the 200
kilometer wide body is 53 astronomical units (8 billion kilometers) from Earth, having passed through perihelion in 1965.
In this Sky & Telescope diagram by Roger W. Sinnott, the innermost ring denotes the orbit of Jupiter.

To Marc W. Buie (Lowell Observatory), 2000 CR105 was at first just another distant discovery among dozens found
during his team's ongoing search for trans-Neptunian objects using 4-meter telescopes in Arizona and Chile. But its
uniqueness became apparent when dynamicist Brian G. Marsden started cranking out possible orbits for this
24th-magnitude find. "It was obviously
far away, 53 to 55 astronomical units," Marsden recalls, well beyond most objects known to inhabit the Kuiper Belt.

In the months that followed, an international team led by Brett Gladman (Nice Observatory) quietly tracked the dim
interloper. Thanks to their year-long pursuit, it's now clear that 2000 CR105 has a highly eccentric orbit that stretches out
to roughly 400 a.u. - more than 10 times Pluto's mean distance from the Sun and far larger than that of any known Kuiper
Belt object. But more puzzling to dynamicists is the orbit's perihelion distance. At 44.5 a.u. (6.7 billion km), it is well
beyond the perturbing influence of Neptune, whose gravity has flung countless other bodies out to the solar system's most
distant fringes. So how did 2000 CR105 end up stranded out there?

Gladman and six colleagues offer several possibilities in an article submitted to the journal Icarus and summarized here.
According to coauthor Matthew Holman (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), the orbit of 2000 CR105 is
dynamically chaotic and may simply be the consequence of eons of erratic drift. But that's a statistical long shot, so the
team has
explored other ideas. Perhaps the Kuiper Belt formed with numerous planet-size bodies in its midst, which wreaked
orbital havoc before themselves being heaved out of the region. Or Neptune itself may have ventured farther out before
settling into its present orbit. And though the notion is highly speculative, a massive perturber may yet await discovery
beyond the Kuiper Belt's known boundary. Holman notes that a body the size of Mars 200 a.u. away could easily have
escaped detection to date.

Resolving this mystery will take time, but one implication is already clear. Objects like 2000 CR105 should be
exceedingly rare, so if others are found then the Kuiper Belt is likely much more massive than currently envisioned.

Mitch Battros
Producer - Earth Changes TV
http://www.earthchangesTV.com