The Dark Star: The Planet X Evidence (16 page)

As I mentioned, there are two possibilities for the timing of an
interaction with the Dark Star and its retinue. Planetary scientists have puzzled
over the catastrophic damage that both the Earth and Moon suffered 3.9 billion
years ago. This does not appear to be the tail-end of the primordial chaos of
the solar system, but rather a later, sudden onslaught of cosmic debris lasting
about 100 million years. Because at least one of the rocks studied turns out to
be iron-rich, it is thought likely that the impactors were asteroids, not
comets.
¹⁸

At
that time, there was a devastating attack by comets, many of them sizable. The
Earth lay in ruins as a result, and the Moon still bears the scars of that
widespread destruction. It was like receiving a rapid series of extinction
level impacts.

The timing of this momentous bombardment was not during the
formation of the Moon. It is a quite separate, later event not directly linked
to the chaos of the early solar system. We know this because of the age of Moon
rocks, which turned out to be mostly 3.9 billion years old, 600 million years
later than expected. This correlates with the age of ancient rocks on the Earth
and on Mars, as well as cratering features of the asteroids.
¹⁸
The
implication of this is that the entire solar system was subject to a series of
massive bombardments around that time, and that 3.9 billion year old rocks will
one day also be discovered on the surfaces of Venus and Mercury. Scientists who
have studied this pattern of cratering have speculated that the bombardment
occurred at intervals of about 10,000 years during this catastrophic period.
¹⁹

This
implies that an initial catastrophic event disrupted the asteroid belt and then
was followed over a period of 100 million years by cyclical after-shocks.
Perhaps this temporary cycle of bombardment was connected to the movement
through the inner solar system of a massive planet on a 10,000 year orbit that
then migrated out, restoring calm thereafter.

Some
Moon rocks were indeed 4.5 billion years old, though, implying two separate
catastrophic events leading to the formation of the Moon's surface.
¹⁸
Other ancient surfaces throughout the solar system tell a similar story;
massive impacts 3.9 billion years ago. The source of the cataclysm appears to
be from within the solar system. This is most likely to be the asteroid belt
itself, which turns out to have a smaller than expected population.

There
are two possible explanations for the depleted population of the asteroid belt.
Either the asteroids were once part of a planet that existed at that location
which was destroyed in some way, or a planet was never able to properly form
there in the first place because of the proximity of Jupiter's intense gravity
field, which destabilized the region. Both mechanisms are able to show how
asteroids were lost in large numbers. Scientists tend to favour the latter
suggestion, whilst catastrophists favour the former. The population of
asteroids in the belt is also diverse in terms of their chemical constituency,
suggesting differing origins.
²⁰
Personally, I think this implies
catastrophism, linked to the impacts of the late, great bombardment. I'm quite
certain that the Dark Star is implicated in all of this.

Scientists
are now grappling with the problem of how the very primitive life on Earth
which preceded the collisions 3.9 billion years ago might have survived the
onslaught. Life is tenacious, that's for sure. The timing of this bombardment
would seem to be in keeping with Sitchin's analysis that the rogue planet
Nibiru/ Marduk crashed into the solar system at that time, and that its
devastating "attack" left the Moon battered and the Earth scourged of
much of its oceanic water.
²¹
It is also possible that the nearby
transit of the Dark Star, which I consider to be Marduk, had the gravitational
effect of causing the Earth to migrate into the inner solar system.

There
are two possibilities for a possible migration, then. The first is that the
Earth was propelled inwards by the same impact that caused the formation of the
Moon. The second is that the Earth and Moon were later pummeled by debris
accompanying the Dark Star, and that the action of this brown dwarf itself was
enough to cause the migration. The presence of the asteroid belt tends to
suggest the former.

At this point, you might be wondering why I am so convinced that
the Earth once orbited near to the present location of the asteroid belt. Why
not simply accept that the Earth and Moon have always been found the same
distance from the sun? Everyone else does...The answer is that most simple of
molecules; water.

As our knowledge of the solar system has improved, it has become
increasingly clear that water is a more significant component of the planetary
bodies than previously thought. The gas-giants Jupiter and Saturn, as well as
their more distant cousins Uranus and Neptune, have all been found to contain
significant quantities of water in their atmospheres, a finding that has
surprised astronomers.2
²

When the fragmented comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 collided with Jupiter
in 1994
²³
, it allowed astronomers to analyses atmospheric gases deep
in the planet's cloud structure, giving them an unprecedented amount of
atmospheric data regarding the hidden layers. There they found water, in
quantities that they had not expected. This would not have been possible
without the comet causing catastrophic damage to Jupiter.

This was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for us to see the forces
of nature at work in the heavens. Comets really do hit planets, and the effects
are truly catastrophic, even for a planet as massive as Jupiter. If that's what
a fragmented comet could do, what were early collisions between actual planets
like in comparison?

It was not just the collision with Shoemaker-Levy 9 that allowed
astronomers to access Jupiter's atmospheric secrets. By a stroke of fate, the
Galileo spacecraft was en-route to Jupiter in 1994, and captured the collisions
on camera from a different angle than that from Earth. But Galileo also carried
an atmospheric entry probe that dropped into Jupiter's clouds on 7th December
1995.

The probe survived just an hour, but sent back invaluable data, as
it floated though the upper levels of Jupiter's cloud cover. Then it succumbed
to the immense pressures and rising temperatures of this colossal planet.
²⁴
Again, the atmospheric entry probe confirmed higher than expected levels of
water.

Galileo has also given us unprecedented access to the Jovian
system of moons, including the remarkable world Europa. It is now generally
accepted that Europa has a liquid, aqueous ocean under the surface ice-sheet.
In fact, the two larger Galilean moons, Callisto and Ganymede, might also
harbour hidden oceans.

This finding is entirely due to the detailed imagery afforded by
Galileo's fly-bys. Its images showed giant chunks of once-moving ice covering
certain areas of the moon. Some of the chunks resemble ice-floes on Earth, and
astronomers suspect that the kilometers-thick ice that covers Europa's surface
may move in response to a heated ocean-like interior, made watery by the tidal
pull of the parent planet.
²⁵

Jupiter's great mass acts as a magnet for comets and asteroids.
Its entourage of 16 moons stand in the way of this incoming barrage, so starkly
demonstrated by Shoemaker-Levy 9, and most of them exhibit the scars in their
rock and ice surfaces, in the form of a myriad of craters. Europa, by contrast,
is as smooth as a billiard ball. Yet, it must have received its fair share of
impacts. So, it is evident that its surface is being constantly reworked.

A similar reworking is occurring on the Galilean moon closest to
Jupiter, Io, whose volcanic activity is the most violent in the solar system's,
driven by the tidal forces of Jupiter's immense gravity. It is these tidal
forces that warm Europa's kilometers-deep ocean, an ocean that wraps around the
planet, capped by a healthily thick ice sheet. Many now speculate about the
possibility of extraterrestrial life thriving in the oceanic depths of Europa.
Ganymede and Callisto, slightly more distant moons of Jupiter, may, likewise,
play host to life.
²⁶

A pattern is emerging. Water is common-place in the solar system.
It is central to life on Earth. It is a major component of the comets. It
exists in abundance in the Jovian system, whose rocky satellites have hidden
oceans. Water is also a major component of many of the surfaces of the moons of
the outer planets.
²⁵

Thanks to the NASA/Department of Defense lunar satellite
Clementine, we are now aware of a lake of frozen water ice on the Moon,
surviving deep within a crater near the Moon's pole, where the rays of the sun
could not penetrate to sublimate the ice. Water may once have existed on the
Moon in greater quantities, most of which would have been driven off by direct
exposure to the sun's relentless radiation bombardment. The ancient age of the
Lunar surface indicates that water has not played a part in this satellite's
geography for many billions of years. But still, water has been found there.

Mars is the latest world to give up its aqueous secrets.
Scientists have long suspected that Mars once had water in abundance, based on
the ancient river beds etched into its surface. They suspected that vast
quantities of water might lurk below the Martian surface. However, they did not
expect to find that water was playing an active role in the planet's current
surface geography. Detailed images from the Mars Global Surveyor have produced
hundreds of cases of gullies, apparently recently formed by flash-flooding of
some kind.
²⁷

The Martian atmospheric pressure is about 100 times less than that
of the Earth's at sea-level, and this means that water should boil into the
Martian atmosphere when exposed to it. Yet, it appears to have been flowing
along the surface under these conditions, leading scientists to speculate that
the flows are sudden and violent - although what causes the sudden watery
eruptions from these underwater aquifers remains a mystery. What is clear is
that water is a commodity on Mars, despite the adverse atmospheric conditions.

Recent findings have confirmed that liquid water has existed on
the surface of Mars in relatively recent times. Images taken by ESA's Mars
Express spacecraft, which is orbiting the red planet, have highlighted what
appear to be ice floes across the region known as Elysium. A press release by
University College London (UCL) confirmed the existence of a sea frozen just 5
million years ago, which is now covered in volcanic dust, preventing the
sublimation of the ice by Mars' frigid and thin atmosphere.

This discovery tied in with a previous detection of methane gas
over the same general area. The combination of a deep body of water and methane
gas is strongly suggestive of life existing at the current time under the
Martian surface.
^28,29
So water is prevalent throughout the solar
system, not just on Earth.

If water exists in a liquid form, as on Europa, possibly Ganymede
and Callisto, and now Mars, then the chances of life being found in these
locations is greatly enhanced. Where did it all come from? There are a number
of possibilities, but the significant quantities of water in the solar system
are consistent with the Sitchin's radical account of the solar system.

When the primordial Earth, a world with an abundance of oceanic
water, was cleaved apart by both a Mars-sized planet and the later bombardment
of comets, water and terrestrial debris were widely dispersed throughout the
planetary solar system. The planets and moons around the sun would have been
inundated with water and ice, and this is evident today with these ongoing
discoveries.

The Earth managed to hold onto a great deal of its precious
commodity, which is actually a mystery too, as we shall see in the next
chapter. A problem with Earth's own water, is the reason why I think that it
was once located farther from the sun.

¹
W. Lee “To Rise from Earth” p239-242 Cassell & Co 2000

²
Z. Sitchin “The 12th Planet” p221-222 Avon 1976

³
C. Sagan “Pale Blue Dot” p111-117 Headline Book Publishing 1995

⁴
G. Santillana & H. Von Deschend “Hamlet's Mill” Gambit
International 1969

⁵
R. Bauval & A Gilbert “The Orion Mystery” Mandarin 1994

⁶
R. Bauval & G. Hancock “Keeper of Genesis” p16-23 Mandarin
1996

⁷
L. Pye “Cyclostratigraphy”
http://www.coastvillage.com/origins/articles/pye/cyclostratigraphy.htm
2000

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M. Chatelain “Our Ancestors Came From Outer Space” Ch1 Pan 1979

⁹
D. Wilcock “Convergence”
http://www.dprins.demon.nl/convergence/9903.html
“Maurice Cotterell and the Great Sunspot Cycle”

¹⁰
Gilbert & M. Cotterell “The Mayan Prophecies” App. 4, Element
1995

¹¹
Z. Sitchin “Genesis Revisited” Ch 2 Avon 1990

¹²
Sky & Telescope “New
Names for Uranian Moonlets” p32 November 2000

¹³
Z. Sitchin “Genesis
Revisited” p126-129 Avon 1990

¹⁴
d'Arc “Space Travellers
and the Genesis of the Human Form” p29 The Book Tree 2000, Reproduced with kind
permission.

¹⁵
Hecht “Old Timer: The
Oldest Mineral on Earth is Found, Challenging Ideas about the Birth of the
Moon” 10th January 2001,
http://www.newscientist.com/news.jsp?id=ns9999315

¹⁶
Velikovsky “In The
Beginning”
http://www.velikovsky.collision.org

¹⁷
P. Tyson “Origins”
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/tothemoon/origins.html

¹⁸
D. Kring & B. Cohen
“Cataclysmic bombardment throughout the inner solar system 3.9-4.0 Ga”, J.
Geophys. Res., 107(E2), 5009, 2002

¹⁹
J. TenBruggencate
“Asteroid theory explores impact on Earth life” 24th March 2002 Honolulu
Advertiser, with thanks to Lee Covino

²⁰
E. Chaisson & S.
McMillan, “Astronomy Today”, 1st Ed., Prentice-Hall, Upper Saddle River 1993

²¹
Z. Sitchin “Genesis
Revisited” Ch 1 Avon 1990

²²
I. Semeniuk “Neptune
Attacks!” New Scientist p27-9 7th April 2001

²³
D. Levy “Comets” p208 Touchstone 1998

²⁴
P. Weissman & M Segura “Astronomy”, p36-45 “Galileo Arrives
at Jupiter” Jan. 1996

²⁵
P. Barnes-Svarney “Astronomy” p46-47 “Frozen Assets” Oct. 1997

²⁶
M. Milstein “Astronomy” p38-43 “Diving into Europa's Ocean” Oct.
1997

²⁷
M. Hardin “New Images Suggest Present-day Sources of Liquid Water
on Mars” 22nd June 2000

²⁸
Philip Ball "Mars may have a frozen sea" 22nd February
2005
http://www.nature.com/news/2005/050221/full/050221-7.html

²⁹
Bloomberg News "Mars Has Frozen Sea; Raises Chance of Life
on Planet" 22nd February 2005
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000103&sid=adraOqIQmDEo&refer=us