06/19/2026
What if the catastrophic ancient myths of a fiery destroyer in the sky weren't just stories, but documented sightings of a real, undiscovered world? My paper exploring the idea that "Planet Nine" might actually be a captured rogue planet on a highly eccentric, 3,600-year orbit. The mainstream Planet Nine hypothesis assumes a stable, distant orbit, which leaves a lot of the Solar System's anomalies unexplained. My research suggests a much more dynamic model: a super-Earth in a metastable transition state that periodically swoops right into the inner solar system. This perfectly explains why it hasn't been detected by modern telescopes yet—because of its extreme orbit, it spends about 99% of its time moving very slowly through the darkest, most distant reaches of its aphelion, making it incredibly hard to spot. But the evidence of its gravitational footprint is already here. Through N-body simulations, we can see how it acts like a "sweeper," causing the strange, highly-debated clustering we observe in extreme Trans-Neptunian objects. Instead of the classic shepherd, Planet Nine acts as a destroyer, clearing its path.
Even more fascinating is how this 3,600-year cycle perfectly aligns with massive, sudden climate shifts in Earth's history, like the Younger Dryas impact event and the Piora Oscillation. When we cross-reference this with history, the puzzle pieces really lock together. The ancient Sumerian descriptions of Marduk and Nibiru as a glowing, copper-red celestial body , Egyptian Typhon , catastrophic red comet whirlwind and god of disasters, the uniquely long-lasting, comet of 60 CE documented by both Roman and Chinese astronomers , sound exactly like a massive volcanic planet outgassing a huge cometary tail of dust and gas as it gets heated by our Sun. It’s a cyclical astronomical event that bridges astrophysics, ancient mysteries, and the mechanics of our solar system. Check my article:
Evidence for Planet Nine with a 3,600-Year Period and 1 AU Perihelion as the
Cause of Recurring Apocalypses
Pavlo Kandyba
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=6296938