Believers in Planet X/Nibiru have often confused it with Nemesis, a hypothetical star first proposed by physicist Richard A. Muller in 1984. Muller postulated that mass extinctions were not random, but appeared to occur in the fossil record with a loose periodicity that ranged from 26–34 million years. He attributed this supposed pattern to a heretofore undetected companion to the Sun, either a brown dwarf, a dim red dwarf or a gas giant planet, lying in an elliptical, 26-million-year orbit.
This object, which he named Nemesis, would, once every 26 million years, pass through the Oort cloud, the shell of over a trillion icy objects believed to be the source of long-period comets that orbit at thousands of times Pluto's distance from the Sun. Nemesis's gravity would then disturb the comets' orbits and send them into the inner Solar System, causing the Earth to be bombarded. However, to date no direct evidence of Nemesis has been found. Either way, many biologist believe Earth has entered it's sixth cycle of mass extinctions. Is The Sun's binary counterpart moving in to do us in?
While astronomers say that in theory our Sun may have a binary star companion, the true believers say the science is sound to support that Nemesis reeks havoc on use every 26 million years. The Skeptics say this is rubbish.
I guess we'll just have to wait and find out!
The other caches in this series. Finding these maybe helpful in finding Planet X, but it's not necessary.
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