Your comments on how Jcattera and others can get people to believe in Nibiru without any real evidence for it reminds me of something from a good book I'm reading: Classroom Discussions: using math talk to help students learn. The authors' teaching techniques, tested in low-income schools over several years, taught elementary students to communicate their observations, conjectures, and analyses clearly, and to support them with evidence in group discussions.

A lot of the students "didn't like" this, but they saw its benefits. As one of them said in a post-course interview, it was important to learn to explain yourself in math class because, "In real life, if you can't explain and don't have evidence, it doesn't count".

Well, we all know that to a lot of people, yes, it does. I guess the question is whether we want to be one of those easily-hoodwinked people, and therefore go through life both panicked and foolishly complacent, in constant alternation.

Yeah, he's the guy I went around with about the nonexistent "Hellion 1957" last year. He accused me of working for the government and being part of a "cabal of atheist naysayers and haters."

I long ago filed him away under "unreachable," but I still occasionally respond to him because some people actually believe his insane crap.

In this recent case Jupiter left the field of view somewhere around June 20th, causing a ring reflection, and by the 25th the Light was diffracting off the instrument (the funny triangular comet like shape we're talking about now) and come July 10th-ish if I recall Venus pops into view (for real, for we know what Venus is, and Venus isn't an image artifact).

It'd be no surprise to me if Venus does exactly the same thing sometime soon, when it too leaves the field of view - a ring reflection and a diffraction artifact, all over the course of a few days.

And if I've just said this to you on YouTube, hi there. Someone asked this exact question this morning, but phrased a bit differently.

Regarding VonI'veforgottenhisusernamealready, it's a classic example of not bothering to do any research and then just guessing at an images content. Really useful way to approach science that… And it doesn't matter how much he rants, if he can't get any evidence together he doesn't have a case.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_am_pVo-Bc

Take a look. It's 10 minutes. Wouldn't that just be a comet or asteroid? I really doubt that Venus or any planet in OUR solar system has a tail. Just let me know what you guys think. And thanks again. You guys are truly life savers. And heroes! Cheers!

Again.

Ain't that the truth. He'll never stop trying to find it either.

In any case, no Nibiru or Nibiru's dwarf for Jcattera. Again.

As you can see on the various STEREO pages though, the HI2 imagery isn't quite as pretty as all the others, so it's no surprise to see people avoiding it and sticking with good old HI1, COR2 and LASCO's C3 over on SOHO.

The moon? You sure about that, or is this another wild claim from Nibiru believers?

No, I'm not sure, or else I would not have said "probably." See included screen.

This page is the bare minimum amount of research you need for STEREO claims, it's surprising how few people bother to look at it while they wait for their latest batch of images to download.

Yep. There's a clear shot of Venus from the Behind craft, and I don't know that the Moon is ever in STEREO's FOV. I watch SOHO frequently, but I usually only visit the STEREO site when someone claims some doomsday object is out there.

This page is the bare minimum amount of research you need for STEREO claims, it's surprising how few people bother to look at it while they wait for their latest batch of images to download.

As has become my routine in addressing Nibiru claims, I ask, where is the gravitational chaos such a body would inflict upon the solar system? It doesn't exist, which should tell you something.

The object in that video is probably the moon is probably Venus. Keep in mind the following from NASA's STEREO site, especially the last line:

"For the Heliospheric Imager (HI) images below, the order is reversed to reflect the fact that the HI Ahead telescopes look to the left of the Sun, and those on Behind look to the right. Also, the HI images are not rotated to put solar north up."

Jcattera's claim about earthquake mayhem is false (like most of his claims), and we see temperature records every year.

And there we go, one video.

That being said, I'll leave the scientific stuff to those who actually understands what they are looking at (which neither I nor Jcattera does).

Discuss?

ARE WE DOOMED!?

But in all reality, what's going on?

But definitely it wasn't "25 Jupiter diameters" wide. If it was ever that wide, it would have swallowed the entire planet and we wouldn't be here writing stuff on this forum, obviously.

"Nemesis" is (or at least was) a scientific theory designed to explain a perceived pattern of extinction in the fossil record. I say "perceived" because it is not at all a settled issue whether or not such a pattern even exists. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nemesis_(star) for details.

"Wormwood" on the other hand was the name given to an object that falls to the earth in the book of "Revelations" in the Bible.

They are not the same for one simple reason: Whatever "Wormwood" is, or referenced, it falls to the earth. Nemesis is proposed to exist at a distance between 50,000 and 100,000 astronomical units, and never, ever, approaches the inner solar system.