No Planet X or Planet Nine will hit Earth

Planet X; On 6 April 2016, New York Post published a news release originally published in The Sun of the United Kingdom.Planet x

The news says the famous scientist Daniel Whitmire discovered a planet could destroy the Earth:

A mysterious planet that destroyed Earth's life millions of years ago could do it again, according to a top space scientist.

And some believe that this could happen as soon as this month.

Planet Nine or Planet X - a new planet discovered on the edge of the solar system in January, will cause comet showers to bombard the of Earth, killing all life, reports Daniel Whitmire, of the University of Louisiana.

The astrophysicist reports that the planet (Planet X) passes through the sun every 20.000 years, and at its closest point to us, bombards the Earth with asteroids and comets.

So this news has caused a shock in the last few days in the Greek online community as well. Major newspapers have reproduced it with expressions of the type: "some believe" or "some are convinced" without mentioning who are the "scientists" who were convinced and who are the their.

Below you will find snippets from a snopes survey that specializes in breaking myths and false news:

Daniel Whitmire, is a retired astrophysics professor who now works as an instructor . Mr Daniel Whitmire published the findings in the January issue of the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society about the previously unknown “Planet X” that triggers comet showers linked to mass extinctions of life on Earth around 27 million years ago.

Here is something that does not work well: Publications repeatedly report that the forthcoming event was "recently discovered" while the publication of University Press describes that the study is in progress for more than 30 years:

Whitmire and his colleague, John Matese, published the first research on the link between Planet X and mass extinctions in the journal Nature in 1985 while working as astrophysicists at of Louisiana at Lafayette. Their work was published in 1985 by magazine as a cover story titled: “Did Comets Kill the Dinosaurs? A Bold New Theory About Mass Extinctions.”

Here we should also mention the fact that the publication of the University Press makes absolutely no reference to any imminent disasters. The publication is very vague and ends with a question about the possible effects of the planet on the fossils of the Earth over millions of years:

The theory of Whitemire and Matese is that Planet X is orbiting the sun, and with an elliptical orbit it slowly turns and passes through the Kuiper zone every 27 for millions of years, sending comets inside the solar system. The comets it sends are not crushed only on Earth, but they decompose inside the solar system as they get closer to the sun, reducing the amount of sunlight reaching the Earth.

Whitmire and Matese published their own estimates of the size and orbit of Planet X in their original study. They believed that the planet had about one to five times the mass of the Earth, and it was about 100 times farther from the sun. Their numbers are much smaller than Caltech's (California Institute of Technology).

Matese has since retired and no longer publishes. Whitmire retired from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette in and began teaching at the University of Arkansas in 2013.

Whitmire reports what is truly exciting to have the possibility of a distant planet that could have a significant impact on the evolution of life on Earth.

"I have been dealing with this story for 30 years," he said. "If there is ever a final answer I would love to write a book."

Snopes contacted Mr. Whitmire via e-mail and asked him if the publication of the New York Post, which states that Planet X would wreak havoc on Earth in April of 2016, said:

"No, it is not true. That's completely impossible. "

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