On December 30 1983, the orbiting telescope called the Infrared Astronomical Satellite or IRAS found a planet the size of Jupiter in the direction of Orion far beyond our solar system. So mysterious is the object that astronomers do not know if it is a planet, a nearby protostar that never got hot enough to become a star or a giant comet.
"All I can tell you is that we don't know what it is," said Gerry Neugebauer, IRAS scientist for California's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and director of the Palomar Observatory for the California Institute of Technology.
The giant gaseous planet which is so cold that itcasts no light and has never been seen by optical telescopes on Earth or in space, is 50 trillion miles away. While that may seem like a great distance in earthbound terms, it is a stone's throw in cosmological terms, so close in fact that it would be the nearest heavenly body to Earth beyond the outermost planet Pluto. The mystery body was seen twice by the IRAS satellite as it scanned the northern sky from January to November, 1983, when the satellite ran out of the supercold helium that allowed its telescope to see the coldest bodies in the heavens. The second observation took place six months after the first and suggested that the mystery body had not moved from its spot aligned in the sky toward the western edge of the constellation Orion.
"This suggests it's not a comet because a comet would not be as large as the one we've observed, and a comet would probably have moved," said James Houck of Cornell University's Center for Radio Physics and Space Research and a member of the IRAS science team. "If it is that close, I don't know how the world's planetary scientists would even begin to classify it."
Whatever it is, Houck said, the mystery body is so cold that its temperature is no more then 40 degrees above absolute zero, which is 459.67 degrees below zero Fahrenheit. The telescope is so sensitive that it can "see" objects in the heavens that are only 20 degrees above absolute zero.
The IRAS telescope also discovered what Russ Walker of Jamieson Engineering of Palo Alto, Calif, called a "miniplanet," 1.3 miles in diameter, circling the sun inside mercury's orbit-making it the only body in the solar system to be found that close to the sun.
IRAS also found that the dying star Betelgeuse is half-circled by dust shells that extend out to 4.5 light years from the Betelguese, the brightest star in the constellation Orion.
"The dust shells are clearly made up of material that was shed by the star as it began to die more then 50,000 years ago," said Harm Habing of the University of Leiden in the Netherlands, where the instrument aboard the satellite that made the discovery was built."
"What is unusual is that the rings are only on one side of the star, which suggests that, as the star moves, it leaves the shells behind."
Gerry Neugebauer of Jet Propulsion Laboratories said "This telescope has been so sensitive that we could see a single speck of dust with it at a distance of two miles. If you were to put a baseball into orbit over the East Coast, this telescope could pick it up on the west Coast.'
In 1984, a show aired on PBS on astronomy, half way thru the show the head astronomer of an observatory here in the U.S. displayed a computer screen of the solar system where the New planet could be found.
As he spoke in a "matter-of-fact" way he told the listening audience that the "funny thing about Nemesis is that it only sends asteroids directly to Earth." This astronomer also told the listening audience that Nemesis could move forward or backward but mostly stayed where it was. Then without warning as viewers were presented with a computer screen in a simulated program sending mock asteroids to Earth from Nemesis, the PBS show was cut for a moment and the audience was left hanging. One could tell their was more, but PBS never returned to that segment of the show. Could this be the origin of some UFOs?
Are these "asteroids" really UFOs moving toward earth?
Then another story came out (a cover up story?) and said that this large planet the size of Jupiter could not be seen by any of the observatories with telescopes equipped with infrared detectors. That in fact the object was seen in the constellation Ophiuchus in the vicinity of the star, Van Biesbroeck 8, and not in the constellation Orion. In fact it was nothing more than a huge gas sphere, case closed.
But was it closed or did someone just try to close it? While the discovery of Nemesis stunned scientists, it came as no surprise to famed Scandinavian psychic Sven Peterson.
"For the past five years, I've been getting mental impressions of an unseen but enormous planet mysteriously orbiting on the very fringe of our solar system," Peterson says.
"The psychic impressions I've been receiving have been frightening, but I've tended to dismiss them because I accepted scientist's assertions that all the planets in our solar system had been discovered eons ago.
"This new discovery, however, has proved that my impressions were valid, and they're very frightening."
Peterson says that the planet is populated by a huge army of space aliens placed there centuries ago.
"They were transported to the planet over a period of hundreds of years because the incredibly cold temperatures make it possible to keep the alien soldiers in a natural deep freeze until the time comes to invade the Earth," Peterson reveals.
"They lie there in a state of suspended animation, awaiting the time when their leaders in another galaxy decide to launch their invasion of Earth."
"My psychic impression is that the aliens are awaiting the time when mankind so weakens itself through warfare and pollution of Earth that it won't be able to offer even token resistance."
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