In the following lines I will highlight the connection between Eris (its intermediary name was 2003-UB-313) and the Antiquity writings, where the planet was frequently named Nibiru:

On August 1, 2005 newspapers from around the world wrote: "The celestial body was given the temporary name 2003-UB-313." Scientists that gave this name to the Nibiru planet were very much aware of the Sumerian writings, as "UB" meant the 7 planets group (3+1+3=313=7), formed of: Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto and Nibiru. The other group was formed of the remaining 5 planets (2+0+0+3=2003=5), meaning: the Sun, Mercury, Venus, the Earth and the Moon. Neither "12" was not a coincidence - the total of the numbers in the intermediary name. The Sumerians knew 12 celestial bodies! The same way Z. Sitchin wrote in "The Twelfth Planet" that the "UB is formed of seven parts, named in the Acadian language ‚giparu' - the night shelter...". There is no doubt that this is the origin of the ancients' faith in the "seven skies".

In my book "The Bible and the UFOs" (SITI, Bucharest, 1991) based on the data from the Apocalypse/ Revelation, I had given the dimension of a possible planetary station: it was 2400 km. The last book of the Bible contains details on the Eris planet (chapter 21:2, 12, 16) called the NEW JERUSALEM (ERIS-SALEM), together with its diameter and area:

a) diameter: 12.000 x 200m (1 stadium) = 2400 km
b) area: 2400 km (length) x 2400 km (width) x 12 (levels or floors) = 69.120.000 km2

For more details see "The Arrival of Gods" (www.miracol.ro).
The ancient writings also stated the comet-like aspect (comet provoking great disasters) of Eris/ Nibiru, most probably caused by one of its satellites:

1. The ancients:

a)  The Sumerian writings, 7200 years ago: "A planet moving very fast, on an elliptical orbit, similar to a comet" (Z. Sitchin, The Twelfth Planet)
b)  His brightness (Yahweh/ Anu, the Leader of the Gods planet - A/N) is like the sunshine, a burning flame following His steps" (Habacuc 3: 4-5)
c)  3600 years ago: "A comet... came very close to Earth in the middle of the second millenium b.c." (I. Velikovsky, "Worlds in collision", Lucman, Bucharest).

The current situation:

a)  Professor M. Brown (details also on www.interstars.net, 21.01.2007) has declared that the planet 2003-EL-61 can undergo the attraction of Neptune, transforming itself into the brightest comet ever seen, at least 6000 times brighter than the comet Hale Bopp.
b)  Eris is expected to pass between Mars and Jupiter its nearest point to Earth during 2010-2012. This is the main reason why NASA will launch the Dawn spacecraft on June 20, 2007, which will arrive at its destination, the asteroids belt, in 2011.
In the end the logical explanation of the warming process on Earth and on the other planets in our solar system proves to be the one provided by I. Velikovsky, in his book from 1950: "Two celestial bodies have been attracted one to each other. The inner masses of the Earth were pushed to the periphery. The Earth, with its rotation movement disturbed, started to warm."

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