In the Enûma Elish, it was Marduk who created humanity and then divided the Anunna between heaven and earth and assigned them tasks. Story, Ronald (1976). The Space-gods revealed. A close look at the theories of Erich von Däniken. Harper & Row. ISBN 0-06-014141-7. Konstantin Batygin; Michael E Brown (January 20, 2016). "Evidence for a distant giant planet in the Solar system". The Astronomical Journal. 151 (2): 22. arXiv: 1601.05438. Bibcode: 2016AJ....151...22B. doi: 10.3847/0004-6256/151/2/22. S2CID 2701020.

The discrepancies remained through to the 1990s when the astronomer Robert Harrington put forward his hypothesis for an extra planet beyond Neptune with, as one example, a semi-major axis 101.2 AU and eccentricity 0.411 which makes its perihelion 59.60, so the closest to the Sun it would get is one and a half times the distance to Pluto. [69] In 1999, New Age author V. M. Rabolú (1926–2000) wrote in Hercolubus or Red Planet that Barnard's Star is actually a planet known to the ancients as Hercolubus, which purportedly came dangerously close to Earth in the past, destroying Atlantis, and will come close to Earth again. [76] Lieder subsequently used Rabolú's ideas to bolster her claims. [77]

What Contributions Did The Anunnaki Of Sumeria Make?

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According to some writers, Sitchin's ideas, along with those of Erich von Däniken, may have influenced the beliefs of the religious sect of Raëlism, [15] [16] and writer Mark Pilkington sees the mythology of Japan's Pana Wave religious group as rooted in Sitchin's The 12th Planet and its sequels. [17] Astronomers reject the idea of Nibiru and have made efforts to inform the public that there is no threat to Earth. [51] They point out that such an object so close to Earth would be easily visible to the naked eye and would cause noticeable effects in the orbits of the outer planets. [52] [23] Most photographs purporting to show "Nibiru" beside the Sun are lens flares, false images of the Sun caused by reflections within the lens. [53] Claims that the object has been concealed behind the Sun are untenable. [23]

The reinvention of the Anunna term through its Akkadian form, Anunnaki, arose in 1964, after the publication of the book Ancient Mesopotamia: Portrait of a Dead Civilization, by Adolph Leo Oppenheim, who popularized this concept which was taken by different blogs and characters from the esoteric world and pseudoscientific portals. Furthermore, according to a team of researchers from California Institute of Technology’s (Caltech), the unusual tilt of the Sun could be attributed to this massive, undiscovered planet that is lurking at the edge of our Solar System. a b c Mark Molloy (September 22, 2017). "Nibiru: How the nonsense Planet X Armageddon and Nasa fake news theories spread globally". The Telegraph. The Daily Telegraph. Archived from the original on September 22, 2017 . Retrieved September 22, 2017.