Planetary objects proposed in religion, astrology, ufology and

There are a number of planets or moons whose existence is not supported by scientific evidence, but are proposed by various astrologers , pseudoscientists, conspiracy theorists, or certain religious groups.

Hypothetical planets astrology

Some were proposed by early philosophers, and so might be considered part of protoscience , but none has ever gained any scientific acceptance. The work of Zecharia Sitchin has garnered much attention among ufologists, ancient astronaut theorists and conspiracy theorists. He claimed to have uncovered, through his retranslations of Sumerian texts, evidence that the human race was visited by a group of extraterrestrials from a distant planet in our own Solar System.

Part of his theory lay in an astronomical interpretation of the Babylonian creation myth , the Enuma Elish , in which he replaced the names of gods with hypothetical planets. However, since the principal evidence for Sitchin's claims lay in his own personally derived etymologies and not on any scholarly agreed interpretations, his theories remain at most pseudoscience to the majority of academics.

Sitchin's theory proposes the planets Tiamat and Nibiru. Tiamat supposedly existed between Mars and Jupiter. He postulated that it was a thriving world in a very different solar system, with jungles and oceans, whose orbit was disrupted by the arrival of a large planet or very small star less than twenty times the size of Jupiter which passed through the solar system between 65 million and four billion years ago.

The new orbits caused Tiamat to collide with one of the moons of this object , which is known as Nibiru. The debris from this collision are thought by the theory's proponents to have variously formed the asteroid belt , the Moon , and the current inclination of the planet Earth. Sitchin claims that the Babylonians associated Nibiru with the god Marduk.