NASA Astrobiology Institute

David Morrison (David Morrison), NAI – NASA Astrobiology Institute (NASA Astrobiology Institute), Senior Researcher: 1. What is the source of the prophecy that the end of the world will come in December 2012? It all began with allegations that Nibiru (Nibiru), the estimated planet discovered by the Sumerians (the inhabitants of an ancient civilization of Sumer), is headed toward Earth. Zecharia Sitchin Zecharia Sitchin, who wrote the fantastic works of art of the ancient civilization of Sumer in Mesopotamia announced in several books (for example, in his book 'The Twelfth Planet', published in 1976) that he found and translated Sumerian documents, which describe the planet Nibiru, which moves in its orbit around the Sun with a period of 3,600 years. These Sumerian legends include stories about 'ancient astronauts' visiting earth since the days of civilization of aliens called the Anunnaki (Anunnaki). Then Nancy Leader Nancy Lieder, a self-proclaimed psychic (medium), which stated that it receives messages from strangers, wrote on her website (Dzetatok) Zetatalk, that the inhabitants of a fantastic planet orbiting the star Zeta Reticuli warned her that the earth in danger from Planet X or Nibiru. The initial date of accident was listed as May 2003, but when this day nothing has happened, the date of Judgement Day was postponed to December 2012. Only recently have these two mythical stories have been associated with the end of the ancient chronology of Mayan Mayan, which falls on the winter solstice in 2012 – hence, the predicted date of Judgement Day December 21, 2012. .