NIBIRU News ~ University astrophysicist links mass extinctions to Planet X and MORE

Periodic mass extinctions on Earth, as indicated in the global fossil record, could be linked to a suspected ninth planet, according to research published by a faculty member of the University of Arkansas Department of Mathematical Sciences.

Daniel Whitmire, a retired professor of astrophysics now working as a math instructor, published findings in the January issue of Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society that the as yet undiscovered “Planet X” triggers comet showers linked to mass extinctions on Earth at intervals of approximately 27 million years.

Though scientists have been looking for Planet X for 100 years, the possibility that it’s real got a big boost recently when researchers from Caltech inferred its existence based on orbital anomalies seen in objects in the Kuiper Belt, a disc-shaped region of comets and other larger bodies beyond Neptune. If the Caltech researchers are correct, Planet X is about 10 times the mass of Earth and could currently be up to 1,000 times more distant from the sun

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

At the time there were three explanations proposed to explain the regular comet showers: Planet X, the existence of a sister star to the sun, and vertical oscillations of the sun as it orbits the galaxy. The last two ideas have subsequently been ruled out as inconsistent with the paleontological record. Only Planet X remained as a viable theory, and it is now gaining renewed attention.

Whitemire and Matese’s theory is that as Planet X orbits the sun, its tilted orbit slowly rotates and Planet X passes through the Kuiper belt of comets every 27 million years, knocking comets into the inner solar system. The dislodged comets not only smash into the Earth, they also disintegrate in the inner solar system as they get nearer to the sun, reducing the amount of sunlight that reaches the Earth.

In 1985, a look at the paleontological record supported the idea of regular comet showers dating back 250 million years. Newer research shows evidence of such events dating as far back as 500 million years.

Whitmire and Matese published their own estimate on the size and orbit of Planet X in their original study. They believed it would be between one and five times the mass of Earth, and about 100 times more distant from the sun, much smaller numbers than Caltech’s estimates.

Matese has since retired and no longer publishes. Whitmire retired from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette in 2012 and began teaching at the University of Arkansas in 2013.

Whitmire says what’s really exciting is the possibility that a distant planet may have had a significant influence on the evolution of life on Earth.

“I’ve been part of this story for 30 years,” he said. “If there is ever a final answer I’d love to write a book about it.”

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The seismic value data filling the 2015/2016 Seismic Chart for Week 7 include a surprising if not shocking number of 5-magnitude earthquake events globally of just five (5) events making me wonder what is coming on the horizon.

Year-over-year earthquake event values for Week 7 have been rather consistent with a single 6-magnitude quake event, an average of about 22 of the 5-magnitude quake events and a steadily rising number of 2.5 to 4-magnitude earthquake events from 204 to 224 this year, but that 5 value for the 5-mag quake events sticks out like a sore thumb; even though the total number of reported earthquake events globally has remained in the 230’s for the last three years. Pull up the 2014/2015 Final Seismic Chart and look down the column containing the 5-magnitude quake events to  realize the lowest value of 13 came in Week 12 of the 2015 Cycle followed by a sharp uptick to 36 the following week, until we see yet another big jump to 46 in Week 15 suggesting that this lull in the 5-mag quakes could be an indication of higher values coming through the month of April 2015, which is expected in view of the Sun/Earth/Black Star nearside-alignment quake event (N) predicted for a very small event window focused on May 7, 2016.

We are definitely looking at a mini-lull period for Week 7 of the 2016 Earth Orbit Cycle relative to the Black Star now moving through the Libra Constellation (May 7, 2016 Coordinates 15h 07m 44s -16 29 32′ 48″) just below the ecliptic plane.

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The primary observations to note for this week include:

The pattern of deeper earthquake events crossing the Pacific Ocean into South America in proximity to this quiet region where a new series of earthquakes are moving from the Jamaica Swarm Area towards the Pacific Ocean/Ring of Fire points to larger and deeper earthquake events springing up along the northern regions of South America pushing North towards the California Quake Swarm Area where larger earthquakes are already taking place part of a gradual uptick running to the end of May 2016. Those following the research realize that the quake event depths from this widening California Quake Swarm ranged from just 3 to 11 kilometers for the last few years, but this quake (link) from the swarm area, being relatively small, took place at more than 32 kilometers below the surface part of what could be a changing trend moving forward. We shall see.

Earth saw five new volcanic eruption events this week with volcanic eruption stories making the news (story) and posted in this newsletter. The new eruption events that dominated Russia and areas of South America last week migrated towards the USA to invade the Aleutian Islands (Pavlof above) part of a pattern that I expect will shift towards the Alaskan mainland, before eventually turning south for seismic/volcanic pressures to intensify down through Canada and the USA through Washington State and eventually Yellowstone. While the progression of these two deep magma waves has been slow to build through the current earth change uptick period, I fully expect to see a much-different picture moving forward to the end of May; before the next earth change lull period begins once our planet crosses Black Star Orbit Path on May 20, 2016 to begin moving once again away from the inbound Black Star.

The magnetic North Pole continues to migrate down the chart a week ahead of schedule, but moved about half the distance covered through the previous seven-day period.

http://www.wizaurad.com/axis-drift.html

We finally had success in locating a better magnetic North Pole migration chart, as subscribers answered my call and provided me with the necessary links to give newsletter subscribers/contributors/Youtubers a better picture of how the magnetic pole has been moving since 2013. The migration pattern of the magnetic North Pole trailing the previous year’s location by 11 to 13 days has definitely been broken and I must wonder if the two-year pattern represents a temporary phenomenon that made my recent ‘right on’ predictions just lucky guesses. The investigation will continue monitoring magnetic North Pole migration patterns in combination with the seismic and volcanism patterns, but right now the evidence seems to suggest that much more must be known concerning the tracking of this anomalous object; before these kinds of correlations can be made for drawing definitive conclusions.

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