Hi:

I'm new here, and I have a few answers to some of the posts.

First, I am one of the co-authors of the book titled above and featured in those 5 videos, so I know the other two authors very well.

In terms of our authoring duties, I did not work on the science. Jacco did that. I worked together with Marshall on other aspects of the book.

Peter B, I was particularly drawn to your letter with all the questions, so I will be quoting your entire question letter.

Beginning:

That was "US News and World Report." I saw copies of the news reports. The first was dated sometime in September, 1983.

Nibiru / Planet X is on a 3600-year tightly elliptical orbit that is roughly perpendicular to the ecliptic of the solar system. It is a planetary system of a brown dwarf and planets with a protoplanetary disk that resembles a very thick dust cloud. Check any astronomy book, and it will tell you that this is how planetary systems form around stars. We have one here. It's called the Oort Cloud.

No. The Greek philosopher Plato was the cause of the name given to Atlantis that we now know it by. Who knows what the people we call Atlanteans called themselves?

Mayan anthropologist George Erickson would be a good person to start with.

Let's not just look at only the heat of a brown dwarf. Stars also have magnetism, which gives them polarity. If an incoming brown dwarf has a polarity that is opposite to our own sun, that would cause the sun to react. Also, the brown dwarf would affect any planets it nears, and we would not be able to see it at a Pluto distance, for instance, without infrared, because of the protoplanetary disk.

Do the research. You'll find that all of our planets are suffering global warming.

It's not on a 4 - 5 thousand year orbital cycle. Its cycle is 36 to 37 hundred years. Also, the orbit is highly erratic, which indicates planets circling it and pulling on it with their own gravity.

It will seem to come out of nowhere, yes, when it comes up. That's because of the protoplanetary disk again. Have you ever driven at night in either pea-soup fog or a very nasty sandstorm? How about doing those things with your headlights off?

Picture (not two, but) at least twelve cars all driving around under those conditions. Now, try to accurately predict which of those twelve will escape without a scratch. It's not going to happen.

Brown dwarfs are brown because they don't generate enough heat to make them appear red or yellow. Added to that, there is the matter of (again) the protoplanetary disk, which is a cloud-like structure that holds heat in. So, again, detection without a far-infrared instrument will be next to impossible.

That's true -- or will be true for us by the time it gets here. The trick is not to wait to leave the tracks until the train is upon you, but to plan your exit when you first feel the rumble under your feet. Therefore, we need telescopes that look outside the visual spectrum.


Try Google. Google William Herschel, John Couch Adams and Clyde Tombaugh. They were neither NASA nor Russians, but they were looking for Planet X long before NASA, the Russian Space Agency, ESA, JAXA, etc., took up the mantle.

William Herschel noticed that Saturn was perturbed from its orbit and discovered Uranus. Adams did the same for Neptune, and Tombaugh discovered Pluto.

Now, before you rush to say, "There, that's proof that Planet X doesn't exist," here is what Dr. Brian Marsden of the Smithsonian Institution said: "If you fail to find something, it only means that you failed to find it. It doesn't mean that it's not there."

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Well, folks, let's belly up to the bar, and make Peter B our new best friend. He must have the bux (either US or Australian) to purchase one of these beauties in either the near- or far-infrared range! (Sorry, Pete -- couldn't resist that! )

Seriously, the SPT in Antartica that just went active in 2007 is a far-infrared telescope that will be able to do the search for us, and at the most optimal place.


Amateur astronomers are like those driving through the pea-soup fog at night without headlights. No, I am not calling them stupid, just unequipped. They can't tell about what they don't yet know, or as Dr. Marsden put it, "haven't yet found."

The jury is still out on that, but I hope you're right.

About the military, be all that you can be, JimH. I did, and I'm still alive and kickin'.

Again, 36 to 37 hundred years. Yes, it did leave a trace in a very early flyby. That's called the Asteroid Belt.

As for the planets, that's earlier in my letter.

Pete, I am having some real, good-natured fun with your letters. Here is your follow-up letter after having watched the videos. Really, it is nothing against you.

Maybe the person who started this thread didn't, but we did. According to the first video, after the press conference announcing the discovery of the space body at the edge of the solar system, NASA capped the topic. No more information came out -- that is, until they stated what you said. However, that took several months for them even to go that far.

Did you listen to the second video? In the second video, about 1/4 of the way through, Marshall Masters states that prevailing scientific thought about brown dwarfs is that they must be larger than Jupiter. He briefly again touches on the US News story, but stops short of saying that he believes that object to be Planet X, because the previous sentence indicates that he does not. However, read the next paragraph.

Planet X, with a protoplanetary disk around it, is not traveling light. It will bring many smaller objects with it, including one like the one spotted by IRAS.

Yes, it is a lot cooler than the sun, but inside the orbital sphere of Pluto, it is within the sun's gravitational field. It affects, and is affected by, the sun's gravity. That is making the sun go crazy, and the sun affects Coruscant -- no; Tattooine -- no; oh, yes, Earth and the other planets in our system. (Fans of Star Wars are well aware that Coruscant and Tattooine had enough problems of their own without Nibiru jumping into their $#!t.) Then, the global warming of the outer planets is affected by the heat of the brown dwarf, itself.

Ignore the five videos if you wish, research them if you wish (please!), or if you wish, take the videos at their word, for Marshall did suggest research at the end of the last video, too.

One more thing, Pete, you asked about The Kolbrin Bible. Here is its current website. http://yowbooks.com/html/kolbrin.html Yes, group, I also edited that book, as you will find near the bottom of the page.

The reason that it doesn't show up on Wiki is that people were putting erroneous entries onto its Wiki page, using their "public editing" system, and stating them as facts. I don't remember now what they were because this happened several years ago, but as editor, it was my responsibility to check them out. Marshall sent Wiki the facts and asked them to update the page. It was pulled, instead.

Such is life.

Thanks, Pete.

Now, on to STS60:

STS, since I already stated my position about the original post and Pete's answer, I will not restate it. It has not changed in the last 5 minutes, nor will it.

However, I do have a bone to pick about the ad-hominem attack you launched against Marshall and the other two co-authors of the book that the videos are about. You said, in response to another statement:

None of the three of us is delusional; one of us is a scientist, and I respectfully, but publicly request that the moderator edit that paragraph out of your letter. You don't know us, and you don't have a right to use a public forum to judge us in that manner. I didn't judge Pete, and though I may not agree with him, he is entitled to his opinion about the subject of Planet X, which is what this thread is about.

Now, to end this letter on a happier note, Bozola, your post had me rolling on the floor with laughter! That tells me you spent some time watching Hardware Wars. Keep the humor coming, guy!

Cheers,
Princess