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Before you read the
Washington Post Article below you should know the following
 In
1982 NASA recognized the possibility of an extra solar planet that was
beyond the reach of their best satellite to detect. So NASA set out to
change that! Just one year later JPL conveniently had just what NASA
needed to make it possible to look deep into our own solar system, (past
Pluto's orbit).
The
launch of the IRAS satellite shortly there afterwards, located a VERY
LARGE object that NASA officials were "bedeviled"
by, and that they, "do not want to accept it" what they were now
witnessing.
 Some
of the DATA suggested, "that it might actually be moving toward
Earth!"
So
on January 26, 1983, NASA launched the Infrared Astronomical Satellite
(IRAS) with the results to be overseen by; Dr. Gerry Neugebauer, IRAS
chief scientist, Dr. James Houck of Cornell University
The rest of the story
is found in the Washington Post story below!
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The
Washington Post,
31-Dec-1983,
Front Page Article
Mystery
Heavenly Body Discovered!
A heavenly body possibly as
large as the giant planet Jupiter and
possibly so close to Earth that it would be
part of this solar system has been found in
the direction of the constellation Orion by
an orbiting telescope aboard the U.S.
infrared astronomical satellite.
So mysterious is the object
that astronomers do not know if it is a
planet, a giant comet, a nearby "protostar"
that never got hot enough to become a star,
a distant galaxy so young that it is still
in the process of forming its first stars or
a galaxy so shrouded in dust that none of
the light cast by its stars ever gets
through.
"All I can tell you is that
we don't know what it is," Dr. Gerry
Neugebauer, IRAS chief scientist for
California's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and
director of the Palomar Observatory for the
California Institute of Technology said in
an interview.
The most fascinating
explanation of this mystery body, which is
so cold it casts no light and has never been
seen by optical telescopes on Earth or in
space, is that it is a giant gaseous planet,
as large as Jupiter and as close to Earth as
50 billion miles. While that may seem like a
great distance in earthbound terms, it is a
stone's throw in cosmological terms, so
close in fact that it would be the nearest
heavenly body to Earth beyond the outermost
planet Pluto.
"If it is really that close,
it would be a part of our solar system,"
said Dr. James Houck of Cornell University's
Center for Radio Physics and Space Research
and a member of the IRAS science team. "If
it is that close, I don't know how the
world's planetary scientists would even
begin to classify it."
The mystery body was seen
twice by the infrared satellite as it
scanned the northern sky from last January
to November, when the satellite ran out of
the super cold helium that allowed its
telescope to see the coldest bodies in the
heavens. The second observation took place
six months after the first and suggested the
mystery body had not moved from its spot in
the sky near the western edge of the
constellation Orion in that time.
"This suggests it's not a
comet because a comet would not be as large
as the one we've observed and a comet would
probably have moved," Houck said. "A planet
may have moved if it were as close as 50
billion miles but it could still be a more
distant planet and not have moved in six
months time.
Whatever it is, Houck said,
the mystery body is so cold its temperature
is no more than 40 degrees above "absolute"
zero, which is 459 degrees Fahrenheit below
zero. The telescope aboard IRAS is cooled so
low and is so sensitive it can "see" objects
in the heavens that are only 20 degrees
above absolute zero.
When IRAS scientists first
saw the mystery body and calculated that it
could be as close as 50 billion miles, there
was some speculation that it might be moving
toward Earth. "It's not incoming mail," Cal
Tech's Neugebauer said. "I want to douse
that idea with as much cold water as I can."
Then what is it? What if it
is as large as Jupiter and so close to the
sun it would be part of the solar system?
Conceivably, it could be the 10th planet
astronomers have searched for in vain. It
also might be a Jupiter-like star that
started out to become a star eons ago but
never got hot enough like the sun to become
a star.
While they cannot disprove
that notion, Neugebauer and Houck are so
bedeviled by it that they do not want to
accept it. Neugebauer and Houck "hope" the
mystery body is a distant galaxy either so
young that its stars have not begun to
shine or so surrounded by dust that its
starlight cannot penetrate the shroud.
"I believe it's one of these
dark, young galaxies that we have never been
able to observe before," Neugebauer said.
"If it is, then it is a major step forward
in our understanding of the size of the
universe, how the universe formed and how it
continues to form as time goes on."
The next step in pinpointing
what the mystery body is, Neugebauer said,
is to search for it with the world's largest
optical telescopes. Already, the 100-inch
diameter telescope at Cerro del Tololo in
Chile has begun its search and the 200-inch
telescope at Palomar Mountain in California
has ear-marked several nights next year to
look for it. If the body is close enough and
emits even a hint of light, the Palomar
telescope should find it since the infrared
satellite has pinpointed its position.
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If
the Washington Post article above was not
already interesting enough, check this out. Yet,
another smoking gun.
NASA Press Release 1992
"Unexplained deviations in the orbits of Uranus
and Neptune point to a large outer solar system
body of 4 to 8 Earth's mass, on a highly tilted
orbit, beyond 7 billion miles from the sun."
This NASA press release was
thankfully documented in a 1992 video by,
Zecharia Sitchin revealing an excerpt from the
1992 NASA press release!
Believe it or
not.
So we better think twice before we discount
Nibiru as nothing more than a hoax.
Ut-oh,
what's this about Planet-x in the New York
Times?
The New York Times
Planet-X Article!
Sunday, January 30, 1983
Clues Get Warm
in the Search for Planet X
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