The Washington Post: December 30, 1983: A celestial body, possibly as large as the giant planet Jupiter, and possibly approaching so close to Earth that it could become part of the solar system, was discovered in the direction of the constellation Orion at orbiting telescope IRAS aboard the US infrared astronomical satellite.
The discovered object is so mysterious that astronomers do not know if it is a planet, a giant comet, or a nearby “protostar” that has not been able to get hot enough to become a star.
“All I can tell you is that we don't know what it is,” said Dr. Jerry Neugebauer, IRAS team spokesman, chief scientist at the California Jet Propulsion Laboratory and director of the Palomar Observatory of the California Institute of Technology, in an interview.
The most surprising explanation for the discovery of this mysterious body, so cold that it does not emit light and has never been seen by optical telescopes on Earth or in space, is that this giant gaseous planet the size of Jupiter is very close to Earth, being at a distance of 50 trillion miles.
While 50 trillion miles may seem like a great distance in terrestrial terms, cosmologically it is a space object two steps away, an object so close that it would be the closest celestial body to Earth outside of the outermost planet Pluto.
“If it's really that close, then the object will eventually be part of our solar system,” said Dr. James Hawke of the Center for Radiophysical and Space Research at Cornell University and a member of the IRAS Science Group. "At the same time, the distance of the object to the Sun is so small that I do not yet know how the world astronomical community will classify it."
The mysterious body was spotted twice by an infrared satellite.
The first time this happened by accident, when the satellite scanned the sky in a northerly direction from January to November: liquid helium ran out on board the satellite, which caused certain disturbances in its operation and made it possible to see relatively cold objects, which the calculated optical sensitivity did not allow to see.
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The second observation took place six months after the first and showed that the mysterious body did not budge from its place in the sky.
“This suggests that this is not a comet, because if it were a comet, then in six months it would certainly budge. The planet, of course, also had to move, but 50 trillion miles is too much distance for us to notice the displacement in 6 months,”says Dr. James Hawke.
Whatever it is, Dr. Hawke further says, this mysterious body is so cold that its temperature is no more than 40 degrees above "absolute" zero, which is 456 degrees Fahrenheit below zero. It can only be seen by the IRAS telescope, which is now so sensitive that it can "see" objects that are only 20 degrees above absolute zero.
According to astronomers, the next step in identifying the mysterious body is to search for it with the world's largest optical telescopes. The 100-inch telescope at Cerro del Tololo in Chile has already begun its search, and the 200-inch telescope on Mount Palomar in California set aside several nights the following year to search for it. If the body is close enough and radiates at least something, telescopes should notice this and determine the location of the object.
To our great regret, in view of the remoteness of the years (decades have passed since the publication of this article by The Washington Post) there is not much screenshot of the publication on the Internet, but the editorial staff of Express.co.uk has it, which is very offended that it is called "yellow" for frequent publications of materials about Nibiru. Therefore, in a special documentary film (it is available at the link), the screen is presented as a proof.
The newspaper goes on to tell about the last honest astronomer named Robert Harrington, who served as chief astronomer at the United States Naval Observatory. Like all his other colleagues, he was very interested in the message about the discovery of a new celestial body and began to observe it privately, using official access to a relatively small telescope in New Zealand.
Since the observed object was very far away, it took years to register its movement across the sky, and Harrington was able to say something definite about its trajectory only in the early 1990s.
He calculated that the object will enter the solar system at an angle of 30-40 degrees to the plane of the ecliptic and, according to his estimates, the distance to the object may be orders of magnitude less than previously assumed. So, if the mysterious object was a protostar, the distance to it coincided with the initially determined one and amounted to tens of trillions of miles. But if the object was a major planet, then the distance to it at the beginning of the 1990s was only 10 billion miles, which is three times the distance to Pluto.
Robert S. Harrington continued to observe the object and diligently collected his photographs, the intervals between which were years (otherwise the movement of the object was indeterminate). But, as the press conference approached, where the astronomer planned to announce the approaching threat open to him, Mr. Harrington suddenly died, according to the official version - he died of cancer. In the months that followed, several other astronomers, who privately researched the topic, also died suddenly, after which all other astronomers lost interest in it.
Meanwhile, the official research of the object seemed to have stopped. In 1983, The Washington Post wrote in black and white that all the major telescopes around the world were pointing at the object. So what did they see there?
In science, the absence of a result is traditionally considered the same result as if there were some result. But after 1983, there are no publications about the strange sensational object. There is not even an article by The Washington Post that refutes the 1983 report and says that something got into the eye of the infrared telescope.
But there is a spontaneous end of the Cold War immediately after the opening of the facility and the beginning of the construction of what we today call the Global State.
There is also a statement by Mr. Reagan, who was just the President of the United States in 1983 and who in 1985, during his first meeting with Mikhail Gorbachev, suggested that he begin to prepare to jointly repel an alien attack on Earth.
In recent years, when everyone is staring at the sky in the hope of seeing Nibiru, but Nibiru is still not and is not, a bunch of all sorts of nubs constantly mock Nibirologists and treat dear tabloids with moronic comments, because they do not know the topic at all. But as shown by the editorial staff of Express.co.uk, and, a little expanded, we - the topic of Nibiru began not yesterday, but in 1983, when even the editorial staff of The Washington Post reported about the newly opened object, without fear of being reproached with “yellowness”. And then the object and the topic itself disappeared somewhere, which they remembered only when earthquakes on Earth became more frequent every 1000.
But where, then, is this incomprehensible thing, which is only 40 degrees warmer than absolute zero and which is visible only through an infrared telescope? And this thing is already somewhere very close, since 35 years have passed since 1983.
We do not know when the object or its satellites will become freely available to observers, but we are following the development of events, which will definitely begin to develop quite soon.