Mysterious Planet X will apparently destroy Earth Sunday, and this Nasa scientist says we should all just chill

David Morrison is a real Nasa scientist who studies real planets and makes real discoveries about the real universe.

Unfortunately for him, Morrison’s duties also include debunking perennial internet theories that a fake planet is about to destroy the Earth, which was supposed to happen in 2003, then 2012, then September 23, then October – and now the world is supposed to end again some time Sunday.

And Morrison sounds like he’s just about had it.

“You’re asking me for a logical explanation of a totally illogical idea,” the senior Nasa scientist said on last week’s SETI Institute podcast, after the hosts asked for his take on the third scheduled apocalypse in three months.

“There is no such planet, there never has been and presumably there never will be – but it keeps popping up over and over.”

Based on just enough pseudoscience to capture the popular imagination, the theory claims that a planet (or “black star”) called Nibiru (or Planet X) is orbiting the outer fringes of our solar system. It’s just far enough out there that no one can prove it exists, of course, but also happens to be on a path that will soon send it careening toward Earth – either to smash into it or cause a gravitational doomsday.