NASA对于2012的解释

异现象调查--nasa对于2012的解释
1. What is the origin of the prediction that the world will end in December 2012?
The story started with claims that Nibiru, a supposed planet discovered by the Sumerians, is headed toward Earth. Zecharia Sitchin, who writes fiction about the ancient Mesopotamian civilization of Sumer, claimed in several books (e.g., The Twelfth Planet, published in 1976) that he has found and translated Sumerian documents that identify the planet Nibiru, orbiting the Sun every3600 years. These Sumerian fables include stories of “ancient astronauts” visiting Earth from a civilization of aliens called the Anunnaki. Then Nancy Lieder, a self-declared psychic who claims she is channeling aliens, wrote on her website Zetatalk that the inhabitants of a fictional planet around the star Zeta Reticuli warned her that the Earth was in danger from Planet X or Nibiru. This catastrophe was initially predicted for May 2003, but when nothing happened the doomsday date was moved forward to December 2012. Only recently have these two fables been linked to the end of the Mayan long-count at the winter solstice in 2012 – hence the predicted doomsday date of December 21, 2012.
2. The Sumerians were the first great civilization, and they made many accurate astronomical predictions, including the existence of the planets Uranus, Neptune and Pluto. So why should we not believe their predictions about Nibiru?
Nibiru is a name in Babylonian astrology sometimes associated with the god Marduk. Nibiru appears as a minor character in the Babylonian creation poem Enuma Elish as recorded in the library of Assurbanipal, King of Assyria (668-627 BCE). Sumer flourished much earlier, from about the 23rd century to the 17th century BCE. The claims that Nibiru is a planet and was known to the Sumerians are contradicted by scholars who (unlike Zecharia Sitchin) study and translate the written records of ancient Mesopotamia. Sumer was indeed a great civilization, important for the development of agriculture, water management, urban life, and especially writing. However, they left very few records dealing with astronomy. Certainly they did not know about the existence of Uranus, Neptune or Pluto. They also had no understanding that the planets orbited the Sun, an idea that first developed in ancient Greece two millennia after the end of Sumer. Claims that Sumerians had a sophisticated astronomy, or that they even had a god named Nibiru, are the product of Sitchin’s imagination.
3. How can you deny the existence of Nibiru when NASA discovered it in 1983 and the story appeared in leading newspapers? At that time you called it Planet X, and later it was named Xena or Eris.
IRAS (the NASA Infrared Astronomy Satellite, which carried out a sky survey for 10 months in 1983) discovered many infrared sources, but none of them was Nibiru or Planet X or any other objects in the outer solar system. There is a good discussion from Caltech to be found at (spider.ipac.caltech.edu/staff/tchester/iras/no_tenth_planet_yet.html). Briefly, IRAS cataloged 350,000 infrared sources, and initially many of these sources were unidentified (which was the point, of course, of making such a survey). All of these observations have been followed up by subsequent studies with more powerful instruments both on the ground and in space. The rumor about a “tenth planet” erupted in 1984 after a scientific paper was published in Astrophysical Journal Letters titled “Unidentified point sources in the IRAS minisurvey”, which discussed several infrared sources with “no counterparts”. But these “mystery objects” were subsequently found to be distant galaxies (except one, which was a wisp of “infrared cirrus”), as published in 1987. No IRAS source has ever turned out to be a planet. A good discussion of this whole issue is to be found on Phil Plait’s website (www.badastronomy.com/bad/misc/planetx/science.html#iras). The bottom line is that Nibiru is a myth, with no basis in fact. To an astronomer, persistent claims about a planet that is “nearby” but “invisible” are just plain silly.
4. Maybe we should be asking about Planet X or Eris, not Nibiru. Why does NASA keep secret the orbit of Eris?
“Planet X” is an oxymoron when applied to a real object. The term has been used by astronomers over the past century for a possible or suspected object. Once the object is found, it is given a real name, as was done with Pluto and Eris, both of which were at some time referred to as Planet X. If a new object turns out to be not real, or not a planet, then you won’t hear about it again. If it is real, it is not called Planet X.
Eris is one of several dwarf planets recently found by astronomers in the outer solar system, all of them on normal orbits that will never bring them near Earth. Like Pluto, Eris is smaller than our Moon. It is very far away, and its orbit never brings it closer than about 4 billion miles. There is no secret about Eris and its orbit, as you can easily verify by googling it or looking it up in Wikipedia.
5. Do you deny that NASA built a South Pole Telescope (SPT) to track Nibiru? Why else would they build a telescope at the South Pole?
There is a telescope at the South Pole, but it was not built by NASA and not used to study Nibiru. The South Pole Telescope was supported by the National Science Foundation, and it is a radio telescope, not an optical instrument. It cannot take images or photos. You can look it up on Wikipedia. The Antarctic is a great place for astronomical infrared and short-wave-radio observations, and it also has the advantage that objects can be observed continuously without the interference of the day-night cycle.
I should add that it is impossible to imagine a geometry in which an object can be seen only from the South Pole. Even if it were due south of the Earth, it could be seen from the entire southern hemisphere.
6. There are many photos and videos of Nibiru on the Internet. Isn’t that proof that it exists?
The great majority of the photos and videos on the Internet are of some feature near the Sun (apparently supporting the claim that Nibiru has been hiding behind the Sun for the past several years.) These are actually false images of the Sun caused by internal reflections in the lens, often called lens flare. You can identify them easily by the fact that they appear diametrically opposite the real solar image, as if reflected across the center of the image. This is especially obvious in videos, where as the camera moves, the false image dances about always exactly opposite the real image. Similar lens flare is a source of many UFO photos taken at night with strong light sources such as streetlights in the frame. I am surprised that people don’t recognize this common photo artifact. I am also amazed that these photos showing something nearly as large and bright as the Sun (a “second sun”) are accepted together with claims made on some of the same websites that Nibiru is too faint to be seen or photographed except with large telescopes.
One widely reported telescopic photo (www.greatdreams.com/nibiru-possible.jpg) shows two views of an expanding gas cloud far beyond the solar system, which is not moving; you can see this from the fact that the stars are the same in both pictures. A sharp-eyed reader of this website identified these photos as a gas shell around the star V838 Mon. Wikipedia has a nice write-up and a beautiful photo of it from Hubble. Another high school student was initially impressed by posted images of a red blob that were said to be of Nibiru. Then he worked out in his Photoshop class how to make just such pictures starting from scratch.
One video posted in summer 2008 on Youtube (www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDKtkWIx00A) shows a guy standing in his kitchen claiming that one of the objects discovered by a NASA x-ray telescope is Nibiru. What is his evidence? That since this false-color x-ray image released by NASA is blue, this must really be a nearby planet with an ocean. This would be hilarious if it were not used to frighten people.
7. Can you explain the fact that the area at (5h 53m 27s, -6 10’ 58”) has been blackened out in Google Sky and Microsoft Telescope? People suggest that these have been blackened out because those are the co-ordinates where Nibiru is located at present.
Several people have asked me about this blank rectangle in Orion in Google Sky, which is a presentation of images from the Sloan Digital Survey. This can’t be a “hiding place” for Nibiru, since it is a part of the sky that could be seen from almost everywhere on the Earth in the winter of 2007-08 when much of the talk about Nibiru began. That would contradict the claims that Nibiru was hiding behind the Sun or that it could be seen only from the southern hemisphere. But I too was curious about this blank rectangle, so I asked a friend who is a senior scientist at Google. He replied that he “found out that the missing data is due to a processing error in the image stitching program we use to display the Sloan survey images. The team assures me that in the next run through, this will be fixed!”
8. If the government knew about Nibiru, wouldn’t they keep it a secret to avoid panic? Isn’t it the government’s job to keep the population at ease?
There are many objectives of government, but they do not include keeping the population at ease. My experience is that sometimes parts of the government do just the opposite, as in the frequent references to various terrorist threats or warnings about driving accidents on long holiday weekends, which are no more dangerous than any other time. There is a long history of associating bad things with political opponents (older readers will remember the “missile gap” in the 1960 election, younger ones will note the many current references to who is or is not keeping the U.S. safe from terrorists). Further, social scientists have pointed out that many of our concepts of public panic are the product of Hollywood, while in the real world people have a good record of helping each other in a time of danger. I think everyone also recognizes that keeping bad news secret usually backfires, making the issue even worse when the facts finally come out. And in the case of Nibiru, these facts would come out very soon indeed.
Even if they wanted to, the government could not keep Nibiru a secret. If it were real, it would be tracked by thousands of astronomers, amateurs as well a professional. These astronomers are spread all over the world. I know the astronomy community, and these scientists would not keep a secret even if ordered to. You just can’t hide a planet on its way to the inner solar system!
9. Why does the Mayan calendar say the world will end in 2012? I have heard that they have been pretty accurate in the past with other planetary predictions. How can you be sure you know more than they did?
Calendars exist for keeping track of the passage of time, not for predicting the future. The Mayan astronomers were clever, and they developed a very complex calendar. Ancient calendars are interesting to historians, but of they cannot match the ability we have today to keep track of time, or the precision of the calendars currently in use. The main point, however, is that calendars, whether contemporary or ancient, cannot predict the future of our planet or warn of things to happen on a specific date such as 2012.
I note that my desk calendar ends much sooner, on December 31 2009, but I do not interpret this as a prediction of Armageddon. It is just the beginning of a new year.
10. What is the polar shift theory? Is it true that the earth’s crust does a 180-degree rotation around the core in a matter of days if not hours? Does this have something to do to do with our solar system dipping beneath the galactic equator?
A reversal in the rotation of Earth is impossible. It has never happened and never will. There are slow movements of the continents (for example Antarctica was near the equator hundreds of millions of years ago), but that is irrelevant to claims of reversal of the rotational poles. However, many of the disaster websites pull a bait-and-shift to fool people. They claim a relationship between the rotation and the magnetic polarity of Earth, which does change irregularly with a magnetic reversal taking place every 400,000 years on average. As far as we know, such a magnetic reversal doesn’t cause any harm to life on Earth. A magnetic reversal is very unlikely to happen in the next few millennia, anyway. But they falsely claim that a magnetic reversal is coming soon (in 2012) and that this is the same as, or will trigger, a reversal of rotational poles. The bottom line is: (a) Rotation direction and magnetic polarity are not related. (b) There is no reason to expect a reversal of magnetic polarity any time soon, or to anticipate any bad effects on life when it does eventually happen. © A sudden shift in rotational pole with disastrous consequences is impossible. Also, none of this has anything to do with the galactic equator or any of the other nonsense about alignments that appears on many of the conspiracy theory websites.
11. When most of the planets align in 2012 and planet Earth is in the center of the Milky Way, what will the effects of this be on planet Earth? Could it cause a pole shift, and if so what could we expect?
There is no planet alignment in 2012 or any other time in the next several decades. As to the Earth being in the center of the Milky Way, I don’t know what this phrase means. If you are referring to the Milky Way Galaxy, we are rather far toward the edge of this spiral galaxy, some 30,000 light years from the center. We circle the galactic center in a period of 225-250 million years, always keeping approximately the same distance. Concerning a pole shift, I also don’t know what this means. If it means some sudden change in the position of the pole (that is, the rotation axis of the Earth), then that is impossible, as noted in the answer to Question 10. What many websites do discuss is the alignment of the Earth and Sun with the center of the Milky Way in the constellation of Sagittarius. This happens every December, with no bad consequences, and there is no reason to expect 2012 to be different from any other year.
12. When the sun and the Earth line up on the galactic plane at the same time with the black whole being in the center couldn’t that cause something to happen, due to the fact that the black hole has such a strong gravitational pull.
There is a giant black hole in the center of our Milky Way galaxy, and like any concentration of mass it exerts gravitational force on the rest of the Galaxy. However, the galactic center is very far away, approximately 30,000 light years, so it has negligible effects on the solar system or the Earth. There are no special forces from the galactic plane or the galactic center. The only important force that acts on the Earth is the gravitation of the Sun and Moon. As far as the influence of the galactic plane, there is nothing special about this location. The last time the Earth was in the galactic plane was several million years ago. Claims that we are about to cross the galactic plane are untrue.
13. I am scared about the fact that the Earth will enter the Dark Rift in the Milky Way. What will this do? Will the Earth be swallowed up?
The “dark rift” is a popular name for the broad and diffuse dust clouds in the
inner arm of the Milky Way Galaxy, which block our view of the galactic
center. The entire “galactic alignment” scare is pretty crazy. Late in
December the Sun is always approximately in the direction of the center of
the Galaxy as seen from the Earth, but so what? Apparently the con-men who are trying to scare you have decided to use these meaningless phrases about “alignments” and the “dark rift” and “photon belt” precisely because they are not understood by the public. It is too bad, but there is no law against lying on the Internet or anywhere else except in a court of law. As far as the safety of the Earth is concerned, the important threats are from global warming and loss of biological diversity, and perhaps someday from collision with an asteroid or comet, not the pseudoscientific claims about 2012.
14. I have heard that the Earth’s magnetic field will flip in 2012 just when the strongest level of solar storms in history is predicted to take place. Will this kill us or destroy our civilization?
Near solar maximum (which happens every 11 years approximately), there are many more solar flares and coronal mass ejections than near solar minimum. Flares and mass ejections are no danger for humans or other life on Earth. They could endanger astronauts in deep space or on the Moon, and this is something that NASA must learn to deal with, but it is not a problem for you or me. Large outbursts can interrupt radio transmission, cause bright displays of the aurora (Northern and Southern Lights), and damage the electronics of some satellites in space. Today many satellites are designed to deal with this possibility, for example by switching off some of their more delicate circuits and going into a “safe” mode for a few hours. In extreme cases solar activity can also disrupt electrical transmissions on the ground, possibly leading to electrical blackouts, but this is rare.
The last solar maximum occurred in 2001, so the next one was predicted for around 2012, 11 years later. However, the most recent solar minimum was unusual, with a period of a couple of years with almost no sunspots or other indications of solar activity, so scientists now guess that the next maximum will be delayed, perhaps to 2013. However, the details of the solar cycle remain basically unpredictable.
You are correct that the Earth’s magnetic field protects us by creating a large region in space, called the Earth’s magnetosphere, within which most of the material ejected from the Sun is captured or deflected, but there is no reason to expect a reversal of magnetic polarity any time soon. These magnetic reversals happen only once in 400,000 years on average.
15. I am confused about a report on the Fox News website that in 2012 a “Powerful Solar Storm Could Shut Down U.S. for Months”. They referred to a report from the National Academy of Sciences that was commissioned and paid for by NASA. If nothing is going to happen as a result of the event in 2012, why would NASA allow such nonsense to be reported?
NASA is pleased with the National Research Council report on heliophysics. As you note, this report includes a worst-case analysis of what could happen today if there were a repetition of the biggest solar storm ever recorded (in 1859). The problem is the way such information can be used out of context. There is no reason to expect such a large solar storm in the near future, certainly not in 2012 specifically. Your reference to “the event in 2012” illustrates this problem. There is no prediction of an “event in 2012”. We don’t even know if the next solar maximum will take place in that year. The whole 2012 disaster scenario is a hoax, fueled by ads for the Hollywood science-fiction disaster film “2012”. I can only hope that most people are able to distinguish Hollywood film plots from reality.
16. All my school friends are telling me that we are all going to die in the year 2012 due to a meteor hitting earth. Is this true?
Your friends are wrong. The Earth has always been subject to impacts by comets and asteroids, although big hits are very rare. The last big impact was 65 million years ago, and that led to the extinction of the dinosaurs. Today NASA astronomers are carrying out a survey called the Spaceguard Survey to find any large near-Earth asteroids long before they hit. We have already determined that there are no threatening asteroids as large as the one that killed the dinosaurs. All this work is done openly with the discoveries posted every day on the NASA NEO Program Office website (neo.jpl.nasa.gov), so you can see for yourself that nothing is predicted to hit in 2012.
17. If Nibiru is a hoax, why doesn’t NASA issue a denial? How can you permit these stores to circulate and frighten people? Why doesn’t the U.S. government do something about it!
If you go to the NASA home page, nasa.gov, you will see many stories that expose the Nibiru-2012 hoax. Try searching nasa.com under “Nibiru” or “2012”. There is not much more that NASA can do. These hoaxes have nothing to do with NASA and are not based on NASA data, so we as an agency are not directly involved. But scientists, both within NASA and outside, recognize that this hoax with its effort to frighten people is a distraction from more important science concerns, such as global warming and loss of biological diversity. We live in a country where there is freedom of speech, and that includes freedom to lie. You should be glad there are no censors. But if you will just use common sense I am sure you can recognize the lies. As we approach 2012, the lies will be come even more obvious.
18. Can you prove to me that Nibiru is a hoax? There are so many reports that something terrible will happen in 2012. I need proof because the government and NASA are keeping so much from us.
It is not logical to ask for proof that the 2012 doomsday is a hoax. Your questions should be to the doomsday advocates to prove that what they are saying is true, not to NASA to prove it is false. If someone claimed on the Internet that there were 50-foot tall purple elephants walking through Cleveland, would anyone expect NASA to prove this wrong? The burden of proof falls on those who make wild claims. Remember the often-quoted comment from Carl Sagan that extraordinary claims demand extraordinary levels of evidence if they are to be believed.
However, I think that astronomers have reached the point where we can offer extremely strong arguments that Nibiru does not exist. A large planet (or a brown dwarf) in our solar system would have been known to astronomers for many years, both indirectly from its gravitational perturbations on other objects and by direct detection in the infrared. The NASA Infrared Astronomy Satellite (IRAS) carried out the first all-sky survey in 1983, and several subsequent surveys would also have seen Nibiru if it were there. Further, if a large mass passed through the inner solar system every3600 years, we would see its disruptive effects on the orbits of the inner planets, and we don’t.
You don’t need to take my word for it. Just use common sense. Have you seen Nibiru? In 2008 many websites said it would be visible to the naked eye in spring 2009. If a large planet or brown dwarf were headed for the inner solar system in 2012, it would already be tracked by hundreds of thousands of astronomers, professional and amateur, all over the world. Do you know any amateur astronomers who are watching it? Have you seen any photos or discussion of it in the big popular astronomy magazines like Sky & Telescope? Just think about it. No one could hide Nibiru if it existed.
19. What about the scary ads for the new film 2012? They tell us to look at these Internet sites to verify the doomsday threat.
The pseudoscientific claims about Nibiru and a doomsday in 2012, together with distrust of the government, are being amplified by publicity for the new film from Columbia Pictures titled 2012, to be released in November 2009. The film’s trailer, appearing in theaters and on their website , shows a tidal wave breaking over the Himalayas, with only the following words: “How would the governments of our planet prepare 6 billion people for the end of the world? [long pause] They wouldn’t. [long pause] Find out the Truth. Google search 2012”.
The film publicity includes creation of a faux scientific website (www.instituteforhumancontinuity.org/) for “The Institute for Human Continuity”, which is entirely fictitious. According to this website, the IHC is dedicated to scientific research and public preparedness. Its mission is the survival of mankind. The website explains that the Institute was founded 1978 by international leaders of government, business, and science. They say that in 2004, IHC scientists confirmed with 94% certainty that the world would be destroyed in 2012. This website encourages people to register for a lottery to select those who will be saved; a colleague submitted the name of her cat, which was accepted. I learned from Wikipedia that creating this sort of fake website is a new advertising technique called “Viral Marketing”, by analogy with computer viruses.
20. Is it possible that the influx of questions you describe is part of some kind of campaign for a book or movie, in the hopes that the volume of denials is taken as more “evidence” that there is a conspiracy?
I ask myself the same questions every day, as the volume of mail I receive about Nibiru (along with various alignments and pole shifts) keeps increasing — now more than 20 per week. Clearly there is money to be made from people’s fear about an approaching doomsday. Some of this hype is apparently advertising for the science fiction disaster movie 2012 (see Question 19). Many websites are selling books and tapes about Nibiru or even “survival kits”. It is all very sad, that with so many real issues (such as global warming and financial collapse) people are being taken in by these lies. In the final chapter of a new astronomy book (The Hunt for Planet X) by Govert Shilling, he writes: “There is plenty to do for the debunkers – the archaeologists and astronomers who take a long and skeptical look at the tidal wave of Nibiru nonsense and explain with scientific precision what is wrong with this cosmic fairy-tale. They will have their work cut out in the next few years. And on December 22, 2012 there will be a new pseudoscientific cock-and-bull story doing the rounds and the whole circus will start all over again. Because no matter how many new celestial bodies are found in our solar system, there will always be a need for a mysterious Planet X.”
有关Nibiru以及2012年世界末日预言的信息已经在网络中泛滥了。仅今年上半年就有超过175本关于世界末日的书籍在销售中。随着这个谣言的扩散，出现了越来越多的灾难预测。NASA的“专家解答”栏目已经收上千个关于Nibiru和世界末日的提问，其中有很多类似的问题。下面按照逻辑连贯性列出了最常见的“20问”以及详细回答。
—— David Morrison, NAI 高级科学家
2009.6.1
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1.       2012年世界末日预言的最早来源是什么？
这个故事开始于Nibiru星的报告，据说它是一颗闪族人假想的行星，正在朝地球运动。有一个叫Zecharia Sitchin 的人写了一些关于古代美索不达米亚文明的小说，他在其中几本（例如1976年出版的《第十二颗行星》）提到了Nibiru 。他发现并翻译了一些闪族人的文档，确信这颗星绕太阳运行周期为3600年。这些闪族人的寓言还包含来自Anunnaki外星文明的宇航员拜访地球的故事。后来，一个自称能与外星人沟通的人——Nancy Lieder，在她的Zetatalk网站上说“Zeta Reticuli 星系中的一颗行星上的居民警告她说地球处于X-星袭击的危险之中”。这一灾难的最初预测时间为2003年5月，但是当时什么也没发生，随后灾难时间改成了2012年12月。在最近一段时间，上面的说法又与玛雅长周期日历的结束时间——2012年冬至联系起来，所以盛传的世界末日时间就成了 2012年12月21日了。
2、闪族人是人类创造的第一次伟大的文明，他们曾经精确的预测某些天文事件，包括预测了天王星、海王星和冥王星的存在，那么我们为什么不相信他们关于Nibiru星的预言呢？
Nibiru 这个词在古巴比伦占星术中是与古巴比伦人信仰的太阳神Marduk相关的。在古巴比伦创作的诗歌Enuma Elis中，Nibiru 作为一个简单的符号出现，被记载于亚述国王（公元前668-627年）的藏书中。闪族人繁盛时期要更早一些，大概在公元前23世纪至17世纪。一些研究和翻译美索不达米亚文字记录的学者们（与问题1中提到的Zecharia Sitchin不同）否认Nibiru是闪族人已知的行星这一说法。闪族人确实开创了伟大的文明，他们在发展农业、水治理、城市建设及文学创作等方面都起到了重要的推动作用。但是他们仅留下了很少的有关天文学方面的记录。他们当然不知道天王星、海王星和冥王星的存在，甚至也不知道太阳系的行星是绕太阳转的——这是闪族人消亡以后两千多年的古希腊时期才形成的概念。闪族人拥有精确的天文学以及他们拥有被称作Nibiru的天神等说法都来自Zecharia Sitchin的幻想小说。
3、你们能否认NASA在1983年发现Nibiru星的事实以及报纸头条对此事件的报道吗？当时你们称之为 X-星，后来称作Xena 或Eris。
IRAS（NASA的红外天文望远镜，进行了10个月太空搜索）发现许多红外光源，但是它们中没有Nibiru或X-星或其他太阳系外围的行星。这里有很多来自加州工学院的讨论：www.spider.ipac.caltech.edu/staff/tchester/iras/no_tenth_planet_yet.html 。简要的说，IRAS共记录了350,000个红外光源，最初，这些光源中很多都无法辨认（看起来多是一些光点），所有这些观测结果都需要经过太空和地面仪器的深入分析和研究

1984年出现的有关“太阳系第十颗行星”的传闻是出现于天体物理杂志题目为“IRAS观测中的未知点光源”论文发表之后，这篇文章讨论了几个红外点光源无法被确认的问题。但是在1987年发表的研究结果显示之前那些“神秘红外光源”不过是一些遥远的星系（其中一个除外，是一缕能发射红外线的卷云）。IRAS从来没有发现未知行星，下面站点有很多相关讨论www.badastronomy.com/bad/misc/planetx/science.html#iras 。总的来说，Nibiru只是一个传说，没有任何事实依据。对于天文学工作者来说，不断的声称有一颗靠近地球的看不见的行星，是十分愚蠢的。
4、我们要问一个有关X-星或Eris的问题：为什么NASA要对Eris星的运行轨道保密？
“X-星”是对实物的一种隐喻说法。在上个世纪天文学家使用这一术语来描述可能的或被怀疑的物体。一旦这个物体被确认，就会给它一个真正的名字，就像冥王星或Eris，它们被发现前都属于X-星行列。如果一个新物体最终不是一个真正的实体或是行星，那么我们将再也不会听到有关它的消息。如果它是真实存在的，就不会称之为“X-星”。 Eris是最近天文学家在太阳系外围发现的矮行星中的一个，它们都没有正常轨道，永远不会靠近地球，就像冥王星一样。Eris比月亮还要小，它非常遥远，且它的运行地点与地球的最近距离约40亿英里，不会再近了。关于Eris从来没有什么秘密被隐藏，你很容易从Google搜索或Wiki百科中找到有关资料。
5、你能否认NASA为了追踪Nibiru而建造了一座南极天文望远镜（SPT）吗？为什么他们要单独建立这座望远镜？
在南极地区确实有一座望远镜，但不是NASA建造的，也不是用来研究Nibiru的。这个南极望远镜是国家科学基金会支持建造的，它是一台无线望远镜，而不是光学望远镜，因此不能拍摄照片及录像。你可以在Wiki百科中查到有关资料。南极地区是一个有利于红外观测及短波无线信号观测的地点，并且观测过程不会受到昼夜交替的干扰。我想补充一句，一个几何物体仅能在南极被观测到，这是不可能的。即使这一物体靠近地球南部，那么它也是会被整个南半球地区观测到的，不仅仅是南极。
6、网上有很多关于Nibiru的图片和视频资料，难道其中就没有Nibiru存在的证据吗？
互联网上大量的照片和视频具有共同的特征，那就是所拍到的Nibiru距离太阳很近（这是为了支持Nibiru在过去几年中隐藏于太阳之后的说法）。这些图像实际是都是太阳在镜头上产生的反射影像，通常被称为“镜头眩光”。你能认出它们来，因为它们总是直接与真正的太阳图像相对，好像是通过图像中心点的反射光线形成的。很显然，当镜头移动时，镜头眩光也会上下飞舞，但总是与真正的太阳图像对称。类似的镜头眩光也是众多UFO照片出现的原因，夜晚的强光源，如街灯，在镜头中产生了幻象。我很惊讶很多人依然分辨不出这种普遍的人造图像来。我还感到吃惊的是这些图像展示了一个巨大而明亮的“第二个太阳”并被很多人所接受，连同那些内容雷同的网站发布的Nibiru已经能被观测到以及被拍摄到的谣言。
两张被广泛报道的图片(www.greatdreams.com/nibiru-possible.jpg) 展示了太阳系外一团不断扩展的气体云的照片，你能够看到两张照片中的小星星是在相同位置的，所以这团气体云是不动的。该网站一名敏锐的读者认出这些照片是环绕V838 Mon 星的气体，Wiki百科中有相关描述，哈勃天文望远镜也拍到了更清晰美丽的照片。另一名中学生则寄来一张被称为Nibiru星的红色云团照片，并使用Photoshop软件演示了图片处理、造假的全过程。2008年，一个视频被传到Youtube网站，一个人站在他的厨房里声称NASA的X-光望远镜发现了Nibiru星。这个人有什么证据？这张颜色被篡改的照片是NASA之前发布的，原本是蓝色的，推测可能是带有海洋的近地行星。如果这个视频不是来吓唬人的话，那么它还是很有趣的。

7、你能解释一下在Google天空及微软望远镜中的某一地区(5h 53m 27s, -6 10’ 58”)被涂黑的真相吗？有人说这个地区被涂黑是因为Nibiru在目前能在那里被看到。
有几个人曾问过我有关Google天空中这个黑色矩形区域问题，这些图片是Sloan Digital Survey提供的。它们不是什么隐藏Nibiru的区域。自从2007-2008年有人看到这个图片以来，人们就开始越来越多的谈论Nibiru了。那些Nibiru隐藏在太阳背后以及只能在南半球观测到的说法受到了很多反驳。由于我也对这个矩形黑色区域很感兴趣，所以我问了我的朋友——Google的一个高级科学家。他回答说“这个地区的数据缺失是由于图像接合程序的错误导致的。有关部门已经确认将会在下一次测查时修复这个问题。”
8、如果政府掌握了Nibiru的信息，他们是不是为防止民众恐慌而故意隐瞒？政府的职能之一是保持民众安定的情绪吗？
政府有很多职能，但是不包括保持民众的安定情绪在内。我的经验是一些政府恰恰相反，因为他们经常向民众发布关于恐怖袭击或交通事故的警告。在历史上，政治对手之间也会互相指责或揭露对方不好的事情。更多的，社会学家指出很多关于公众恐慌的概念源于好莱坞影视作品，在现实世界中人们在处于危险状况下都是会互相帮助的。我认为每个人都能意识到隐密坏消息的后果，不能解决问题而会使问题更加严重。关于Nibiru的信息，真相很快就会展现出来。即使政府想要故意隐瞒Nibiru，他们也无法真正做到保密。如果Nibiru是真实存在的，成千上万的专业天文学家和爱好者将会追踪它。这些天文学家分布在世界各地。我知道一些天文社团，其中的科学家从来不会保守秘密，即使有政府的命令。谁也不可能完全隐藏一颗进入太阳系的行星的踪迹！
9、为什么玛雅日历说世界将会在2012年结束？我听说他们对其他行星有很多精准的预测。你怎么就肯定你知道的比玛雅人还多？
日历是为了保持时间的连续性而存在，不是为了预言未来而存在。玛雅的天文学家很聪明，他们发明了很复杂的日历。古老的日历对历史学家来说很有趣，但是它们与我们现代人的时间记录系统以及日历的准确性是无法比拟的。关键问题是，不管是现代还是古代的日历，都不能预测我们星球的未来或者给出某一具体日期的灾难预警，如2012年12月21日。不久的将来，我桌子上的日历将会在2009年12月31日结束，但是这不意味着是世界末日的预言，只是意味着新的一年即将开始而已。
10、地球磁极转向理论指的是什么？在几天或者几小时内地壳将会围绕内核进行180旋转，真的会发生吗？这与我们的太阳系运行到银河系中心的位置有关吗？
地球反向旋转是不可能发生的，过去不曾发生，将来也不会。大陆板块地球有缓慢的移动（例如，南极洲在很久很久以前离赤道是比较近的），但是这与磁极反向的说法是不相干的。但是，许多报道灾难内容的网站愚弄民众，将地球旋转转向和磁场转向相互关联起来。磁场转向事件平均每40万年会发生一次。目前我们知道的是磁场转向不会对地球上的生命带来危害。不管怎样，磁场转向的事件在未来几千年中不太可能发生。那些网站错误的认为磁场转向将在2012年发生，还说会引起地球磁极的颠倒。这些现象与太阳系运行到银河系中心位置没有什么关联，那种太阳、银河中心、地球排成直线时会发生灾难的说法都是胡说八道。
11、当2012年时，太阳系中大多数行星排成直线、地球运行到银河系中心的时候，将会对地球产生怎样的影响？能够引起地极反转吗？
在2012年以及未来几十年内，并不会出现行星排成一条直线的情况。银河系中心到其边界的距离约30,000光年，地球围绕着银河系中心以225-250百万年的周期在运行着，并且总是与银河系中心保持相近的距离（不会突然运行到银河系中心去）。对于“地极反转”，如果你是指在地球南北极发生的某种突变，例如地轴的方向颠倒，那么这是不可能发生的事情，解释参考问题10的回答。很多网站讨论关于地球、太阳、银河系中心（人马座）排成直线的问题，这种情况在每年的12月份都会发生，没有什么坏的影响，不能据此推测2012年与其他年份有什么不同。
12、当太阳和地球同时运行到银河系平面上，银河系中心的黑洞的巨大引力是否能对地球或太阳系产生什么影响？
在银河系中心的确存在巨大的黑洞，能够对其他星系产生引力作用。但是，银河系中心非常宽阔，大约30,000光年，所以黑洞对太阳系和地球的影响几乎可以忽略。在银河系平面及银河系中心没有什么特殊的能量（可以使地球发生巨变）。对地球能够产生直接影响的引力是来自太阳和月亮的。上一次地球处于银河系平面位置的时间是几百万年以前，处于这个位置时并没有什么特殊事情发生。那种声称地球要穿过银河平面的说法是不正确的。
13、我担心地球将会进入银河系的暗缝（Dark Rift），不知道会发生什么？地球会被湮没吗？
“Dark Rift” 是对银河系旋臂中的宽广且分散的尘埃云的常用称呼，这些尘埃云阻挡了我们观察银河系中心的视线。那种“排成直线”的说法非常荒唐。在每年12月份，太阳总是会运行到近似银河系中心的方向，从地球上能够看到，那么这又怎样呢？很显然，有些人试图使用“排成直线alignments”、“银河系黯缝Dark Rift”以及“光子带photon belt”等公众并不熟悉的说法来制造谣言。这种现象很不好，但是现在还没有法律制裁那些在互联网和其他地方（除了在法庭上）说谎的人。真正关乎地球安危的事件是全球变暖、生态失衡以及将来可能发生的行星或彗星撞击等，而不是2012年之类的伪科学的言论。
14、我听说2012年超级太阳风暴将会使地球磁场发生紊乱，这一事件已经被科学家预测了，不知是不是会摧毁地球上的文明？
在太阳活性极大年（大概每11年出现一次）将会有更多的太阳喷射物出现，这些喷射物对地球上的人类以及其他生物并没有危害，它们将会对太空中的宇航员产生直接影响，这是NASA需要处理的问题，但不是你我的问题。太阳风暴能够中断无线信号传播、引起极光、破坏太空中的一些人造卫星。目前许多人造卫星在设计时都会注意该问题，例如当太阳风暴袭来时会关闭容易被破坏的电路而进入一段时间的安全模式状态。极端的太阳风暴可能毁坏地面上的电力系统，但是这种情况是极少发生的。最后一次太阳活动最大值发生在2001年，因此下一次最大值将发生在11年后的2012年。但是，最近几年的太阳活动极小值是很不寻常的，已经有2年多的时间几乎没有黑子及其他明显的太阳活动标志出现了，所以科学家推测太阳活性最大值可能会推迟到2013年。但是，太阳活动周期的细节目前还是无法准确预计的。地球的磁场通过在地球外围空间创建的磁气圈来保护人类，在磁气圈中太阳喷射物将会被捕获或阻挡。但是，没有依据能够预料地球磁场何时会转向，这种事件平均每400,000年可能发生一次。
15、我对FOX新闻网站关于2012年“超级太阳风暴将袭击美国长达数月”的报道感到疑惑。他们的这份报告是NASA委托国家科学院（National Academy of Sciences）提供的。如果在2012年什么也不会发生，那么NASA为什么会允许这些谣言被报道呢？
    NASA请求国家研究委员会（National Research Council）做了你提到的报告。这个报告包括了对太阳风暴产生的最坏结果的分析：如果在今天发生类似1859年纪录的太阳风暴将会怎样。问题是这些信息是在某些特定背景下阐述的。目前没有什么依据能够预测那样强大的太阳风暴将会发生在2012年，也就是不存在“2012年的超级太阳风暴预测”，我们无法知道下一次太阳活动最大值是否发生在2012年。所有2012年相关的灾难说法都是谣言，就像好莱坞科幻影片“2012”中杜撰的情节一样。我只希望多数人都能分辨好莱坞电影情节与现实世界的区别。
16、我的所有同学都告诉我说2012年流星将会袭击地球并导致所有人死亡，这是真的吗？
你的朋友们都错了。地球经常遭受流星及小行星的冲击，但是严重的袭击事件很少发生。最大的袭击事件发生在6.5亿年前，那次袭击使恐龙灭绝了。现在，NASA的天文学家开展名为“太空防护观测 Spaceguard Survey”项目以发现任何大型的近地小行星，我们已经确认没有发现类似导致恐龙灭绝的小行星，所有这些发现每天都会在NASA的NEO网站发布（neo.jpl.nasa.gov），所以你可以自己去网站看看2012年是否会有导致人类毁灭的袭击事件发生。
17、如果Nibiru只是一个谎言，那么NASA为什么不出面澄清？你们怎么能允许这样的谎言散播并吓唬人？为什么美国政府不出面制止这一谣传？
如果你登陆NASA的网站，你会看见有很多内容是曝光Nibiru及2012谎言的。请在nasa.com中搜索“Nibiru”或“2012”。这些谣言与NASA没有直接关系并且也不是在NASA数据基础上引发的，所以NASA作为一个机构不会直接出面解决该问题。但是科学家们，不管是NASA还是其他机构的，都认识到这些谣言会使人们担忧并分散关注其他重要问题的注意力，例如全球变暖及生态失衡等。我们生活在一个言论自由的时代，因此也会导致谎言满天飞。如果你是一个有常识的人那么我肯定你能分辨出那些谎言。随着我们越来越接近2012年，那些谎言也将不攻自破。
18、你能向我证明NIbiru是一个玩笑吗？有很多资料指出2012年将会有灾难发生，我需要证据，因为政府和NASA一直在对很多事秘而不宣。
不管怎样，我想天文学家们已经指出了很多人争论的关键点，那就是Nibiru根本不存在。天文学家对太阳系中较大的行星（或者棕色的矮行星）已经知道很多年了，他们的观测同时也会针对其他目标天体，并且红外探测方法也会起到追踪作用。NASA红外探测卫星(IRAS)在1983年就进行了第一次太阳系全方位探测，而后其他的很多观测项目也没有发现Nibiru。如果一个大型的行星每3600年通过太阳系一次，那么我们将会看见它对太阳系内行星运行轨道的影响，但实际上并没有发现相关现象。你不需要相信我的话，只需要使用常识判断。你看到Nibiru了吗？2008年许多网站说2009年春天的时候人们用肉眼就能够看到Nibiru。如果一个大行星或者一个棕矮星在2012年将进入太阳系，那么它早已经被世界各地成千上万的天文学家及爱好者观测到了。你知道哪个业余天文爱好者观测到了吗？你在著名的天文杂志，如《Sky & Telescope》上看到任何关于Nibiru的照片或讨论吗？只需动动脑袋想想，如果Nibiru存在的话，谁也无法隐藏它。
19、电影《2012》广告不是很可怕吗？它让我们到一些互联网站点去核实世界末日灾难的说法。
关于Nibiru及2012世界末日的伪科学说法以及对政府的不信任态度，已经随着2009年11月上映的哥伦比亚电影“2012”的宣传被放大了。这个电影的宣传片出现在剧院及一些网站上，展示了被大水吞没的喜马拉雅山以及骇人听闻的说辞“我们的政府为60亿人民迎接世界末日的做好准备了吗？（长的停顿）他们没有！看看事情的真相吧，请用Google搜索2012！”。这个电影宣传片中包括一个伪造的科学站点(www.instituteforhumancontinuity.org/)。根据这个网站的说法，IHC的是进行科学研究和公共预防的，它的职能是拯救人类。这个网站说IHC是1978年由政府、商业及科学等领域的国际领导者们创建的。他们说在2004年，HIC的科学家有94%的把握确信地球将在2012年毁灭。这个网站还鼓励人们登记并给予成为幸存者的奖励，我的一个同事以他的宠物猫的名字进行了注册，也被通过了。我在Wiki百科中知道此类站点是一种新型广告技术，被称为“病毒营销”，与电脑病毒类似。
20、你所描述的大量问题有可能是一些书籍或电影竞争手段？对这些问题的否定说法也可能被作为新的“证据”来进行商业促销，这是一种阴谋？
每天我都问我自己同样的问题，因为我每天都收到关于Nibiru（以及各种“星体排列成直线”、“地球磁极转向”等）的邮件不断增加——现在每周超过20封。很明显，人们对于世界末日的恐慌情绪能够“创造”商业价值。很多说辞明显是为科幻小说及电影做广告。许多网站是为了卖书及录像带，甚至“求生背包”。这是非常可悲的事情，导致许多应该被人们真正关注的问题（如全球变暖、生态失衡等）被忽视了。在Govert Shilling的一本新出版的天文学书籍《追踪X-星》中最后一章写到：为了揭示真相，考古学者和天文学者们需要做大量工作。他们长期怀疑Nibiru谣言并展现科学的论据来证明那些宇宙神话故事的虚假性。他们的工作远不会结束。在2012年12月22日，将会有一个新的无稽之谈诞生，所有类似的喧嚣场面将会重来一次。不管太阳系中有多少新星体被发现，始终都“需要”保留一个神秘的X-星！
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